Date: Mon, 26 Jun 1995 11:00:24 -0700 (PDT) From: "Rodney W. Grimes" <rgrimes@gndrsh.aac.dev.com> To: paul@freebsd.org Cc: FreeBSD-hackers@freebsd.org (FreeBSD hackers) Subject: /etc/rc* and sysconfig Message-ID: <199506261800.LAA04929@gndrsh.aac.dev.com> In-Reply-To: <199506261736.SAA00989@freebsd.netcraft.co.uk> from "Paul Richards" at Jun 26, 95 06:36:37 pm
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[cc: reset to hackers, title changed, Annouce-2.0.5R was inappropriate] > In reply to Rodney W. Grimes who said > > > > > > > > > Well, this has been simplified to a great extent by /etc/sysconfig. > > > > It's my intention that ALL of the mutable files in /etc eventually > > > > collapse to just /etc/sysconfig, and there's never any reason at all > > > > for the user to modify the others. > > > > > > Well, I regularly turn of lpd... but that's in rc, so I guess a flag > > > for that would help. > > A knob flag will be added... along with an args variable since lpd > > also takes options and arguments that some sites need to set. > > > > > How would we handle things that currently I put > > > into rc.local (httpd)? > > > > Wouldn't, httpd is not part of the base system and should in no way > > be handled by the base system. > > Umm, yeah, but how do I specify I want to start httpd if I don't put > it in rc.local ? > > The problem is not that there is site specific stuff in rc.local > but that that there is generic stuff in there which shouldn't be. You dropped some of the later context in this messare or missed some in another message. That stuff that is in /etc/rc.local is going to die a quick and abrubt death, it is evil, it writes to /etc on every single boot. > That file should be empty and nothing more than a hook out from rc > that I can use to start and set local stuff. It would then not need > to be touched or even looked at by an upgrade procedure. And that is what I am doing to it!!! So hold your horses, give me less email to read (and thus more time to work) and it will be done in FreeBSD as god had intended it!!! :-)) -- Rod Grimes rgrimes@gndrsh.aac.dev.com Accurate Automation Company Reliable computers for FreeBSD
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