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Date:      Mon, 25 Jan 1999 21:27:47 -0800
From:      "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@zippy.cdrom.com>
To:        Peter Wemm <peter@netplex.com.au>
Cc:        Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com>, Matthew Dillon <dillon@apollo.backplane.com>, cvs-committers@FreeBSD.ORG, cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: cvs commit: src/etc rc 
Message-ID:  <49447.917328467@zippy.cdrom.com>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 26 Jan 1999 13:23:18 %2B0800." <199901260523.NAA04624@spinner.netplex.com.au> 

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> rc.conf should be safe and without side effects so that it is useable by 
> other programs as a means of fetching configuration variables.

I might also add that those programs which edit it, like
/etc/sysinstall, will not take kindly to finding other things in there
at present. :)

- Jordan

P.S. That said, I may modify sysinstall to write to /etc/rc.conf.local
instead.

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