Date: Thu, 28 Nov 1996 21:22:42 -0800 (PST) From: Doug White <dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu> To: Alain FAUCONNET <af@biomath.jussieu.fr> Cc: "Brian J. McGovern" <mcgovern@spoon.beta.com>, questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: /usr/local/etc/*.d... Message-ID: <Pine.BSI.3.94.961128211455.6734A-100000@gdi.uoregon.edu> In-Reply-To: <199611280737.AA02115@iaka.biomath.jussieu.fr>
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On Thu, 28 Nov 1996, Alain FAUCONNET wrote: > Brian J. McGovern wrote / a ecrit: > > I was just tinkering around with 2.2-ALPHA, and noticed that some startup > > information had been shifted from /etc/rc.local into individual shells > > in /usr/local/etc/rc.d (and others, for X11 for instance). This came without warning and without documentation ;( > > Now, although I think this is a neat idea. I'm not real keen on the location > > of the files.... It's configured in /etc/sysconfig, the first configuration item "local_startup". > > Now, I'm a little hesitant to conform to this "new standard", as, if I migrate > > from using /etc/rc.local to the rc.* directories, these directories will now > > be common across all machines (which is bad). Agreed. > I absolutely second that. In my opinion, /usr/local should remain > under the total control of the local sysadmin, the standard > uncustomized version of the O/S should not touch it. On my site, > /usr/local is also shared by machines so it would be a real pain. > > I like the way it is done by HP-UX 10.*, keeping scripts in /sbin/*.d > directories and configuration files sourced by those scripts in > /etc/rc.config.d. I know that this might look a bit too SystemV-ish > for people here, but it's certainly easy to manage across upgrades. Of course, you can always change this by reconfiguring the server to use the scripts out of /etc/rc.d/ instead of /usr/local/etc/rc.d, but any programs that install a startup file will not figure that out. > At the very least, I agree with Brian that startup files should remain > in the / filesystem. Ditto. Since I'm unofficially part of the FreeBSD 'doc squad', I'll try to get some information added to 2.2-RELEASE or to the handbook or whatever regarding this system. I'm as much interested in it as everyone else ;) Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major
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