> From: Jason Thorpe <thorpej@nas.nasa.gov>
> Date: Thu, 10 Apr 1997 16:34:27 -0700
> 
> On Thu, 10 Apr 1997 14:52:23 -0700 
>  hotz@jpl.nasa.gov (Henry B. Hotz) wrote:
> 
>  > Like the title says, why the change in /etc/netstart as of 4-1-97?  I can
>  > understand wanting to change the way various daemons are started, but why
>  > change the interface config files from hostname.* to ifconfig.*?  That name
>  > convention was one of the few things that survived from SunOS to Solaris,
>  > and now we are deliberately making ourselves different?  Why?
> 
> ... if you change how the files are interpreted without changing the
> names, you're setting yourself up for potential screw.
> 
> Also, hostname.* doens't really describe what's going on ... they're
> really "interface configuration" files.

So...  What ever happened to the calls for just one rc.conf file?
(Or a small number of such conf files.)  Was it shot down?

Gordon