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   Michał :runbsd: :emacs: (mms@emacs.ch)'s status on Sunday, 26-Nov-2023 01:44:40 JST Michał :runbsd: :emacs:

   ok, #bsd question: so, #OpenBSD and #freebsd share the same init system (as OpenBSD was a fork of Free), but #NetBSD does not?

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     Peter N. M. Hansteen (pitrh@mastodon.social)'s status on Sunday, 26-Nov-2023 01:44:31 JST Peter N. M. Hansteen

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     @mms I'd say variations on a theme. FreeBSD and NetBSD both have the defaults in /etc/defaults/rc.conf and you edit /etc/rc.conf while OpenBSD has the defaults in /etc/rc.conf and you edit /etc/rc.conf.local, close enough that it's obvious they share a common origin.

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     feld (feld@bikeshed.party)'s status on Sunday, 26-Nov-2023 01:44:31 JST feld

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     @pitrh @mms FreeBSD also has /etc/rc.conf.local now too so /etc/rc.conf can be controlled by the OS/distro/applicance flavor and the end user/admin can have their specific changes in the .local
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     Peter N. M. Hansteen (pitrh@mastodon.social)'s status on Sunday, 26-Nov-2023 01:44:38 JST Peter N. M. Hansteen

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     @mms OpenBSD forked from NetBSD back in 1995. There has been parallel development ever since, so there will be differences. But I do not think any of them went as far as replacing the entire init system.

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     Michał :runbsd: :emacs: (mms@emacs.ch)'s status on Sunday, 26-Nov-2023 01:44:38 JST Michał :runbsd: :emacs:

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     @pitrh so, they all share it? Only the configuration file name is different?

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     feld (feld@bikeshed.party)'s status on Sunday, 26-Nov-2023 01:51:54 JST feld

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     @pitrh @mms It's a very recent change (FreeBSD 13?) so I'm not too surprised the handbook was overlooked
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     Peter N. M. Hansteen (pitrh@mastodon.social)'s status on Sunday, 26-Nov-2023 01:51:55 JST Peter N. M. Hansteen

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     @feld @mms I suppose the wording in the Handbook https://docs.freebsd.org/en/books/handbook/config/#configtuning-configfiles section 14.2.4 could be made less ambiguous then (the note vs the paragraphs following)

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     Ed Maste (emaste@mastodon.social)'s status on Monday, 27-Nov-2023 05:29:58 JST Ed Maste

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     @feld @mms @pitrh #FreeBSD startup scripts have parsed rc.conf.local since prior to 2000.

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