scripts may use to source safely overrides in ${rc_conf_files}
files.
This protects users who insist on the bad practice of copying
/etc/defaults/rc.conf to /etc/rc.conf from a recursive loop
that exhausts available file descriptors.
Several people have expressed interest in breaking this function
out into its own shell script. Anyone who wants to embark on
such an undertaking would do well to study the attributed PR.
PR: 17595
Reported by: adrian
Submitted by: Doug Barton <Doug@gorean.org>
for pccardd.
Please install /etc/defaults/pccard.conf and update /etc/defaults/rc.conf
as well.
Note that old pccard.conf.sample still remains for while but
no longer to be maintained.
Reviewed by: imp, -mobile ML and nomads ML in Japan.
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
- 6to4(stf) interface configuration.
- Static route configuration.
- Comment additions.
- Replaced a still existed '@' to '%' in IPv6 scoped addr format.
(This became necessary as previous IPv6 scoped addr format change.)
Much thanks to ume, who helped me reviewing, testing, and finding problems
with these changes.
Approved by: jkh
Reviewed by: ume
Initial version created by, and kindly much tested by:
bmah@CA.Sandia.GOV (Bruce A. Mah)
Approved by: jkh
Reviewed by: bmah@CA.Sandia.GOV (Bruce A. Mah),
Ollivier Robert <roberto@keltia.freenix.fr>
Obtained from: KAME project
this is no longer the right way to start Vinum unless you are doing some
kind of maintenance, and that's not the sort of thing that would go into
rc.conf.
respectively logging and dropping ICMP REDIRECT packets.
Note that there is no rate limiting on the log messages, so log_redirect
should be used with caution (preferrably only for debugging purposes).
Originally submitted by: Wayne Self <wself@cdrom.com>
Allow a ppp startup option in rc.conf.
Adjust sysinstall so that it appends to the end of ppp.conf
and uses the generated profile to start ppp in auto mode on
boot.
Submitted by: Josef L. Karthauser <joe@uk.FreeBSD.org>
get a list of interfaces, and then automatically configure them if
${ifconfig_${ifn}} or /etc/start_if.${ifn} exists.
This makes it a lot easier to deal with machines that constantly change
their network configuration as you can leave ifconfig settings for all
the possible cards - just the ones that are present will be configured.
