Is there a knob to turn off /var/db/services.db

Gary Jennejohn gljennjohn at gmail.com
Sat Feb 18 07:52:09 UTC 2017


On Fri, 17 Feb 2017 11:39:31 -0700
Sean Bruno <sbruno at freebsd.org> wrote:

> Because its quite large relative to the size of the MFSroot I'm
> using(128M), is there someway already in the tree to turn off the
> generation of /var/db/services.db ?  If not, does anyone object to
> adding a WITHOUT_SERVICESDB to the system?
> 

I don't even have it on my HEAD system.

It's created by /usr/src/etc/Makefile.

See man 5 services to help you decide whether you can simply delete
it.

-- 
Gary Jennejohn


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