From owner-freebsd-doc Tue Jul 18 8:41:23 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-doc@freebsd.org Received: from nothing-going-on.demon.co.uk (unknown [206.79.44.166]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F064937BF72; Tue, 18 Jul 2000 08:41:19 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from nik@nothing-going-on.demon.co.uk) Received: (from nik@localhost) by nothing-going-on.demon.co.uk (8.9.3/8.9.3) id DAA08614; Tue, 18 Jul 2000 03:26:34 GMT (envelope-from nik) Date: Tue, 18 Jul 2000 03:26:34 +0000 From: Nik Clayton To: Ben Smithurst Cc: Nik Clayton , "Daniel C. Sobral" , freebsd-doc@freebsd.org Subject: Re: rc.d and rc.local Message-ID: <20000718032634.B2747@kilt.nothing-going-on.org> References: <396F6607.6C764850@newsguy.com> <20000715031452.C20004@kilt.nothing-going-on.org> <20000717214927.B4668@strontium.scientia.demon.co.uk> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2i In-Reply-To: <20000717214927.B4668@strontium.scientia.demon.co.uk>; from ben@FreeBSD.org on Mon, Jul 17, 2000 at 09:49:27PM +0100 Organization: FreeBSD Project Sender: owner-freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Mon, Jul 17, 2000 at 09:49:27PM +0100, Ben Smithurst wrote: > > On Sat, Jul 15, 2000 at 04:12:07AM +0900, Daniel C. Sobral wrote: > >> The rc(8) man page has many remarks to the effect that rc.local has been > >> deprecated in favour of rc.d, but there is no man page about rc.d. > >> Something really ought to be done about this. > > > > Bollocks. I hit ^C in the fetchmail window, and it didn't download your > > patch. Can you resend it please? > > ok, here's my first attempt at this. It's probably a bit rough around > the edges, but it might provide a starting point. Looks OK to me, I'll let Sheldon (Capt'n Man Page) add any comments he wants :-) One thing though -- I thought that foo.sh start and foo.sh were identical. Your example doesn't do that. I didn't follow the discussion too closely (I took part in a similar one 18 months ago, and I'm still recovering from it), so I could be wrong. N -- Internet connection, $19.95 a month. Computer, $799.95. Modem, $149.95. Telephone line, $24.95 a month. Software, free. USENET transmission, hundreds if not thousands of dollars. Thinking before posting, priceless. Somethings in life you can't buy. For everything else, there's MasterCard. -- Graham Reed, in the Scary Devil Monastery To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-doc" in the body of the message