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From: "Rodney W. Grimes" <rgrimes@gndrsh.aac.dev.com>
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Subject: Re: What people are doing with FBSD
To: gurney_j@efn.org (John-Mark Gurney)
Date: Sun, 23 Jul 1995 18:39:36 -0700 (PDT)
Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG
In-Reply-To: <Pine.NEB.3.91.950723180435.18477B-100000@nike> from "John-Mark Gurney" at Jul 23, 95 06:10:07 pm
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> 
> On Sat, 22 Jul 1995, Rodney W. Grimes wrote:
> 
> > > does that mean that I should tell you guys about my addion of the xfs, 
> > > xdm, pcnfsd, and bootp stuff to /etc/rc and /etc/sysconfig?  I added them in 
> > > the tradion of the other options...  
> > 
> > Yes please, context or uni diffs are nice :-).
> 
> could someone send me a copy of /etc/rc from 2.0.5-RELEASE?  I didn't 
> make a backup copy... and I don't have 2.0.5-RELEASE on my system any 
> more (I have the -SNAP)...  would the rc from the snap do?

You should probably do a diff relative to -current, that is an easy
file to get via ftp, and an easy file for me to work from with your
changes.

> > bootp does need to go in, so that looks like the only real one
> > you have for me :-).  And it is one I some how still have missing from
> > my current work :-(
> 
> ok... I have moved xfs, xdm, and pcnfsd to rc.local.. and it fixed my 
> problem with having to run ldconfig in /etc/rc to get the libaries loaded 
> for xfs and xdm...

:-)

> also... I would be willing to modify the /etc/rc script to allow a 
> variable call external (or something like that) that would list the 
> programs that you have added (to replace local).. and then have two 
> variables program and program_path...  and as long as 
> ${program_path}program existed and ${program} != NO, it would run the 
> program with the variables defines in program...  sound good?

I am not quite sure what you are getting at here, perhaps a sample chunk
of code would show me just what you mean.  Some how I get the feeling
it is over kill, but perhaps not.

> John-Mark
> 
> gurney_j@efn.org
> Modem/FAX: (503) 683-6954   (FreeBSD Box)

Humm.. where are you located?  I am in Gresham, Oregon, just outside of
Portland.


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