Mike DeMarco writes: > I understand what you are saying Casper and I respect your opinion most of > all. But I have seen strange behavior from nsswitch since Solaris 8 2/02. I > have learned not to trust what should be and have gotten into the practice of > explicitly telling the OS exactly what I want it to do. I found this practice > keeps me out of many bumps in the road. I consider it best practices to > configure a system with exactly what you want it to do and assume nothing.
Given that the folks who design the system _intentionally_ choose the defaults to be the most widely usable settings (anything else is clearly a bug), and that you can't really predict what new features might be added in the future (and what defaults it'll have), I don't think it's a wise choice to try to configure the tar out of everything. You can't really accomplish it in practice (do you really have thousands of lines in /etc/system and yet more in your driver.conf files?), and it's a dubious goal anyway as it makes your system configuration almost completely illegible to future maintainers. Instead, I'd suggest this: if you find a problem (including an incorrect default), file a bug on it. Go ahead and work around the problem until a fix is found (of course), but don't alter your lifestyle to assume that everything around you is infested with bugs. It's not. -- James Carlson, Solaris Networking <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sun Microsystems / 35 Network Drive 71.232W Vox +1 781 442 2084 MS UBUR02-212 / Burlington MA 01803-2757 42.496N Fax +1 781 442 1677 _______________________________________________ opensolaris-discuss mailing list [email protected]
