Date: Mon, 2 Apr 2001 12:29:40 +0300 From: Peter Pentchev <roam@orbitel.bg> To: ports@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Port startup scripts configuration data - /etc/rc.conf? Message-ID: <20010402122940.F462@ringworld.oblivion.bg> In-Reply-To: <20010319111737.B515@ringworld.oblivion.bg>; from roam@orbitel.bg on Mon, Mar 19, 2001 at 11:17:37AM %2B0200 References: <20010319111737.B515@ringworld.oblivion.bg>
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Absolutely no opinions? :) I gather, then, that it would not be considered
a Bad Thing (tm) to do ports configs that way? :)
G'luck,
Peter
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On Mon, Mar 19, 2001 at 11:17:37AM +0200, Peter Pentchev wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Is it considered a 'right way' for ports startup scripts to depend
> on the rc.conf/source_rc_confs mechanism for getting configuration data?
> I know that the config data could be setup by editing the startup script
> by hand, but this is prone to change as the port is updated (which does
> happen quite often for some ports, e.g. databases/mysql323-server).
>
> If it is not considered a Very Bad Thing for a startup script to read
> config data from rc.conf, how should it be done? Is something like
> the following excerpt acceptable?
>
> . /etc/defaults/rc.conf
> if type source_rc_confs | fgrep 'shell function' > /dev/null; then
> source_rc_confs
> else
> rc_conf_files=${rc_conf_files-"/etc/rc.conf /etc/rc.conf.local"}
> for i in ${rc_conf_files}; do
> if [ -r "$i" ]; then
> . $i
> fi
> done
> fi
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