Greetings Nick!
On 29. januar 2015 at 12:48 PM, "Nick Holland" <n...@holland-consulting.net>
wrote:
>
>On 01/28/15 17:25, openda...@hushmail.com wrote:
>...
>> Most of my daemons don't have any flags ...
>...
>Really? Look closer...
>
>IF the vast majority of daemons didn't have any flags at all, maybe
>there'd be some merit to this, but I don't think that's true.
>
>Here's a moderately simple rc.conf.local on one of my machines
> ftpd_flags="-llSA"
> mountd_flags=""
> nfsd_flags="-tun 4"
> ntpd_flags=""
> pkg_scripts=rsyncd
> portmap_flags=""
> rsyncd_flags=""
> slowcgi_flags=
> unbound_flags=""
>
>portmap has one option flag which is not useful in startup scripts.
>mountd has two, one of which might be useable in startup scripts,
>though
>admittedly really making things unusual. The rest all have
>important
>and often useful flags. YOU may not use them often, but some
>people
>probably do.
>
>OpenBSD uses a "Sane Default" model, so very often the flags ARE
>empty,
>but a lot (I'd guess "most", based on that model and spot checking
>of
>daemons listed in rc.conf) of the daemons have knobs that some
>people
>need to twist. You may not, but while we appreciate your support,
>you
>aren't our only user. :)
Indeed, don't get me wrong, I use flags all the time as well. I'm just arguing
for a cleaner separation between startup and configuration for a slightly more
semantic (and better looking) `rc.conf.local`, ie.:
ftpd_enable=YES
ftpd_flags="-llSA"
mountd_enable=YES
nfsd_enable=YES
nfsd_flags="-tun 4"
ntpd_enable=YES
portmap_enable=YES
rsyncd_enable=YES
slowcgi_enable=YES
unbound_enable=YES
Thanks for your feedback!
O.D.
