[COMMIT] Infrastructure update 1

[ron minnich]

On 1 Sep 2003, Eric W. Biederman wrote:

> 
> Giant monolithic changes are dangerous and hard to track
> down so I am updating the infrastructure in small steps where
> everything should continue to work.  If there are problems
> it becomes easier to track things down. This first change is
> the set of changes that gets the new configuration working for me.

I'll test tomorrow.

thanks, I took a look and it's reasonable.

ron