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Date:      Sat, 7 Dec 1996 22:28:58 +0100 (MET)
From:      J Wunsch <j@uriah.heep.sax.de>
To:        freebsd-current@FreeBSD.org (FreeBSD-current users)
Subject:   Re: cvs commit: src/include utmp.h
Message-ID:  <199612072128.WAA22953@uriah.heep.sax.de>
In-Reply-To: <199612071943.MAA27564@phaeton.artisoft.com> from Terry Lambert at "Dec 7, 96 12:43:16 pm"

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As Terry Lambert wrote:

> > 2. The mutable components of /etc made more friendly to automated
> >    merges, this going as well for any system directory the average 
> >    user is likely to modify.
> 
> This is simply a matter of allowing someone to make the necessary
> changes to seperate the data from the procedures which operate against
> it, and seperating the procedures into logical units.
> 
> At the lowest level, this means going to an rc.d mechanism for per
> logical unit start/stop/status and ordering.  You could support
> run levels at the same time, but it's not strictly necessary.

Huh?  Am i in the wrong movie here?

How do rc<something>.d directories affect the locally changed files
like /etc/host.conf, /etc/hosts, /etc/uucp/system,
/etc/sliphome/slip.hosts etc.?  (s,/etc,/var/conf,g if you prefer
this.  It doesn't change the question a bit.)

No, i don't really expect an answer to this either. :)

-- 
cheers, J"org

joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE
Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)



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