At 8:28 PM -0500 12/27/00, Jerry Sloan is rumored to have typed:
Ok..now, and yes I am asking way tooo many questions..
Nope, you're not. You're nowhere _near_ that point yet.
this is how I learn.
Works for me...answering questions is how we teach.
Do I when I uncomment say.. #foreign_submit do i then recomment foreign_submit = yes...or just uncomment the new value and leave the old one uncommented.
Remember that if you uncomment the line that is single-hashed, it makes no difference, since the single-hashed commented line shows you what the default in rc.init is. So if that is what you want, you can leave things alone (_both_ lines commented), since it's already set that way. If you want to _change_ the flag, you would uncomment the double-hashed lines, like: #foreign_submit = yes foreign_submit # uncomment this line if you # want to restrict submitting to # people on the accept list In almost no case wuold you want to uncomment the single-hashed line, since it would be redundant. (If you uncommented both in this example, the foreign_submit variable, which contains the value of "yes," would be re-assigned the value of "yes" then IMMEDIATELY sent into the great unknown by the next line. Note you would get what you wanted, but it wouldn't make a lot of sense to re-assign the same value again before making it dissapear.) Since you've already uncommented the first line, it would make sense to comment it again, using a single hash (to remind you that it is indeed the rc.init default). In the event you have something else and can't _remember_ teh default value, remember that there is an "untouched" copy of rc.custom in the .etc/ directory which you can review to remind yourself what was originally the default. (Just be careful not to change the .etc/rc.custom unless you know _exactly_ what you're doing...) Charlie P.S. This double-line thing doesn't apply to those non-flag variables which contain values...they generally are commented out with the default value in place. If you want to change, say, maxhist to 64 where it defaults to 32, you'd change the numeric value and uncomment the line. And some like unsub_assist are kinda hinky...they can contain a numeric value if they exist, but can also act like a flag and _not_ exist. I have to admit that wouldn't have been something I would have done, but it works, and isn't really confusing, so there are generally no complaints about it. Me