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Date:      Mon, 24 Sep 2001 12:27:52 -0400 (EDT)
From:      Mikhail Teterin <mi@aldan.algebra.com>
To:        andrea@webcom.it
Cc:        obrien@FreeBSD.org, cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: cvs commit: src/etc rc
Message-ID:  <200109241627.f8OGRsf10914@aldan.algebra.com>
In-Reply-To: <20010924175857.A21878@webcom.it>

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On 24 Sep, Andrea Campi wrote:
> Sorry David,  care to explain  the rationale behind this  commit? IMHO
> this breaks  POLA: I (and I  guess a lot  of other people) am  used to
> just:
> 
>  chmod 0 /usr/local/etc/rc.d/foo.sh

Mode 0  is nasty  -- I can't  read it  being non root  :( My  method has
always been to ``chmod -x'', which is now broken...

	-mi

> to  stop foo  from  running at  next reboot  while  still keeping  the
> ability to  run it by  hand and maybe easily  re-enable it at  a later
> time. Granted, there are a lot of  other ways to achieve the same, but
> still  I  wonder the  reasoning  behind  this  change.  Did I  miss  a
> discussion?
 
> Bye,
> 	Andrea
> 
> On Sun, Sep 23, 2001 at 08:03:52PM -0700, David E. O'Brien wrote:
>> obrien      2001/09/23 20:03:52 PDT
>>
>>   Modified files:
>>     etc                  rc
>>   Log:
>>   + explicitly use the shell to run ${local_startup} so one does not have to
>>     ensure the executable bit is set on the scripts.
>>   + Fix VCS ID's



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