On 1 May 2006, at 6:03, Henry Nelson wrote:

> On Sun, Apr 30, 2006 at 07:07:10PM +0900, Henry Nelson wrote:
> > So I look closely at the bootup messages only to see that there are
> > a BUNCH of problems (below).  I really have no idea when they
> > started; from the outset as far as I know. Adding interface aliases:
> > Building databases... dev_mkdb: not found install: not found
> > install: not found eval: /usr/sbin/wsconscfg: not found
> 
> Although this was totally due to my own ineptitude, and I've solved it
> (finally), I'd like to move one response I got privately back on the
> list as it might be useful to others at some point in time.
> 
> One person suggested I change permissions: "please check your
> permissions it should be 666 for rc.conf under /etc/defaults".
> 
> I say "change" because /etc/defaults/rc.conf shipped 444, and
> /etc/rc.conf shipped 644.  They seem reasonable to me (666 seems
> dangerous), but if they are not the intended standard permissions then
> the distribution should be changed (needs pr).  Also, I didn't see
> where the correct permissions for these files (also all the scripts
> under rc.d) were documented in man.

Look in /etc/mtree

Here that gives 0444 for /etc/defaults/rc.conf and 0644 for 
/etc/rc.conf which seems far more sensible than having defaults 
writable.

David