On Monday, 30 January 2006 at 19:27:32 -0600, Matthew D. Fuller wrote: > On Tue, Jan 31, 2006 at 11:52:11AM +1030 I heard the voice of > Greg 'groggy' Lehey, and lo! it spake thus: >> >> Note the word "easily". Yes, you and I can do it. But we're not end >> users by any stretch of the imagination. > > Well, sure, but as you said: > >> That would mean something like a knob DFFLAGS in >> /etc/defaults/rc.conf. > > We have that; it's just that the knob is $daily_status_disks_df_flags, > and it's in /etc/defaults/periodic.conf (along with the rest of the > periodic config stuff).
Egg on my face. I skimmed over that and it didn't hit me in the face (unlike the egg). > I s'pose it could be "easier" if we had some graphical tool or > something to manage periodic.conf, but we don't really have any > widespread ones for rc.conf either. No, but the one-stop nature of defaults/rc.conf is somewhat diluted by other defaults files. Why do we need more than one? Greg -- See complete headers for address and phone numbers.
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