Date: Fri, 29 Nov 1996 16:55:48 -0500 From: "Brian J. McGovern" <mcgovern@spoon.beta.com> To: "Paul T. Root" <proot@horton.iaces.com>, hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: /usr/local/etc/*.d... Message-ID: <199611292155.QAA13087@spoon.beta.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Fri, 29 Nov 1996 12:02:26 CST." <199611291802.MAA23187@horton.iaces.com>
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I think having to change /etc/sysconfig to look in a place other than /usr/local/etc/rc*, is, in my opinion, lame. Perhaps I'm in the minority, and, if I am, please let me know - but EVERYTIME I've used FreeBSD for anything short of showing someone that yes, their PC could run Unix, there were multiple machines involved, and 98% of those cases required the sharing of the /usr/local filesystem(s). Of these 98%, 100% of the time, there was more than one "type" of machine (ie a fileserver plus workstations, or a news server, web server, user box, etc). I just think that the default wasn't really well thought out. /etc/rc.local isn't /usr/local/etc/rc.local, and /etc normally isn't shared between machines. Therefore, I think if this new idea is scoped to replace an aging /etc/rc.local, that it should least be backwards compatible enough to not cause these types of headaches. -Brian
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