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by luke8086 541 days ago
> Isn't powerd off by default

Sometimes it's on, see https://ftp.netbsd.org/pub/NetBSD/NetBSD-release-10/src/etc/...

> By default only one tty is enabled

Ah, but the rest is getting enabled by the installer, see https://github.com/NetBSD/src/blob/netbsd-10/usr.sbin/sysins...

> NetBSD might have some "bloatware" but _the user must enable it_ first

> Everything is off by default. That is one of the things that makes NetBSD great IMHO

I mean, it gets pretty close to that, and I don't even mind syslogd and powerd, but I'm confused why they enable stuff like postfix, inetd and makemandb without asking. Especially makemandb is pretty intensive on slow machines.

> "I was able to fix it by adding usermod disable wss to the bootloader line."

> Does he mean userconf

Whoopsie, that's on me, good catch!
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1vuio0pswjnm7 541 days ago
Ah, sysinst. I do not use it. This explains the enabling of programs in the configuration. Apologies I should have guessed that's where these settings were coming from.

I usually installboot and disklabel manually, download and extract sets manually, use makefs or mdsetimage and vnconfig to create/edit images.

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ruthmarx 540 days ago
> I usually installboot and disklabel manually, download and extract sets manually,

Why do things a harder way when there is no discernible benefit?

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1vuio0pswjnm7 540 days ago
The "discernable benefit" for me is 1. learning how things work and 2. flexibility.
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