cvs commit: src/etc/defaults periodic.conf

[Greg 'groggy' Lehey]

On Tuesday, 31 January 2006 at  9:06:04 +0100, Matteo Riondato wrote:
> On Tue, Jan 31, 2006 at 11:33:35AM +1030, Greg 'groggy' Lehey wrote:
>>
>> We should recognize that neither way is a solution.  The solution
>> would be to make this kind of thing easily configurable.  That would
>> mean something like a knob DFFLAGS in /etc/defaults/rc.conf.  I'd
>> argue (of course) for it to be -k by default (though I'd personally
>> change it to -m).
>
> I think this is really easily configurable, you just need to create
> /etc/periodic.conf and put your custom setup there. It's not more
> difficult than creating a custom rc.conf: you look entries up in
> /etc/defaults/rc.conf and then insert your own in /etc/rc.conf. The
> same can be done for periodic.conf.
>
> Anyway I have no strong objection to revert the commit and use "-m"
> instead of "-k". Would it be ok?

It would be great for me.  I might be the only one.

Don't take this to heart; there are plenty of people who agree with
you.  We just need to find a way to make most of the people happy most
of the time.  There's no need to back out this commit.  Too many
people call for backout when in fact a further refinement would do the
job.  For me, the refinement is to make it easily configurable.  The
real question, which no longer has to do with your commit, is why we
need more than one configuration file in /etc/defaults.

Greg
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