the appropriate documentation added to rc.conf(5). If all goes well
with this over the next few weeks, the PR will be closed with the
pullup of patches back to 4-STABLE.
PR: 20202
Submitted by: Gerhard Sittig <Gerhard.Sittig@gmx.net>
Reviewed by: Darren Reed <darrenr@freebsd.org>
Approved by: Darren Reed <darrenr@freebsd.org>
Obtained from: Gerhard Sittig <Gerhard.Sittig@gmx.net>
All periodic sub-scripts <larf> now have their return codes interpreted
by periodic(8). Output may be masked based on variable values in
periodic.conf.
It's also now possible to email periodic output to arbitrary addresses,
or to send it to a log file, examples of which can be found in
newsyslog.conf.
The upshot of it all should be no discernable changes to the default
behaviour of periodic(8).
PR: 21250
configure FreeBSD so that various databases such as passwd and group can be
looked up using flat files, NIS, or Hesiod.
= Hesiod has been added to libc (see hesiod(3)).
= A library routine for parsing nsswitch.conf and invoking callback
functions as specified has been added to libc (see nsdispatch(3)).
= The following C library functions have been modified to use nsdispatch:
. getgrent, getgrnam, getgrgid
. getpwent, getpwnam, getpwuid
. getusershell
. getaddrinfo
. gethostbyname, gethostbyname2, gethostbyaddr
. getnetbyname, getnetbyaddr
. getipnodebyname, getipnodebyaddr, getnodebyname, getnodebyaddr
= host.conf has been removed from src/etc. rc.network has been modified
to warn that host.conf is no longer used at boot time. In addition, if
there is a host.conf but no nsswitch.conf, the latter is created at boot
time from the former.
Obtained from: NetBSD
the command-line arguments to be used for the call to df(1) when
daily_status_disks_enable is set to YES.
The name of the new variable was chosen by the maintainer of our
periodic hierarchy, Brian Somers.
PR: 19631
The only change in the default functionality should be that
the output reports are slightly more verbose WRT files deleted.
Not objected to by: freebsd-arch
purpose of the hook was to provide the ability for a shell program to
instantiate the firewall rules instead of forcing them to be
statically coded. This functionality was already present through the
use of ${firewall_script}, and I see no need to keep the
${firewall_type} hook around.
Reminded by: Dag-Erling Smorgrav <des@freebsd.org>
reserve, in maximal NFS packets. Originally only 2 packets worth of
space was reserved. The default is now 4, which appears to greatly
improve performance for slow to mid-speed machines on gigabit networks.
Add documentation and correct some prior documentation.
Problem Researched by: Andrew Gallatin <gallatin@cs.duke.edu>
Approved by: jkh
