Date: Fri, 31 Mar 2000 18:26:42 +0100 From: Ben Smithurst <ben@scientia.demon.co.uk> To: "[ -dp- ]" <transmogrify@sympatico.ca> Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Where do those startup scripts go? Message-ID: <20000331182642.E24981@strontium.scientia.demon.co.uk> In-Reply-To: <38E4D250.4DFC76D4@sympatico.ca> References: <38E4D250.4DFC76D4@sympatico.ca>
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[ -dp- ] wrote: > It has been said to _never_ place startup scripts in rc.conf, rc.local, > etc, due to the fact > that they are regularly parsed by other programs. Sounds fine, however > isn't /usr/local/etc/rc.d referenced to > via rc.conf? And this being the case, we would assume that it will be > parsed every time rc.conf is called? If rc.conf is called again during > runtime, I am sure that it is called to with a variable so that the > entire file is not parsed ? Please correct me if I am wrong, this came > to me in a dream. I myslef have always referenced them from rc.conf > since day one, and my machine has yet to blow up. /usr/local/etc/rc.d is referenced in rc.conf (something like local_startup="/usr/local/etc/rc.d") but none of the scripts therein are executed by rc.conf. It's only /etc/rc which has that duty at boot time, after getting the location of the startup directories from rc.conf. -- Ben Smithurst / ben@scientia.demon.co.uk / PGP: 0x99392F7D To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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