Date: Thu, 19 Feb 2004 16:51:47 -0500 From: "slave-mike" <slave-mike@slavepix.com> To: "Doug White" <dwhite@gumbysoft.com>, "Ted Cabeen" <secabeen@pobox.com> Cc: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Feature Request: /usr/local/etc/rc.conf support Message-ID: <001401c3f732$93405c40$c700a8c0@lxfvm8jmsx9muk3> References: <87u11p8sl6.fsf@gray.impulse.net> <20040218180829.B43291@carver.gumbysoft.com>
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as /et/rc.conf is sourced as a shell script archive could one
put something like ...
if [ -x /usr/local/etc/rc..conf ]; then
. /usr/local/etc/rc.conf
fi
in /etc/rc.conf ???
----- Original Message -----
From: "Doug White" <dwhite@gumbysoft.com>
To: "Ted Cabeen" <secabeen@pobox.com>
Cc: <freebsd-current@freebsd.org>; <freebsd-ports@freebsd.org>
Sent: Wednesday, February 18, 2004 9:10 PM
Subject: Re: Feature Request: /usr/local/etc/rc.conf support
> On Tue, 17 Feb 2004, Ted Cabeen wrote:
>
> > With the ever-increasing number of ports that use rc.conf variables to
> > regulate their startup, would it be possible to add support for a
> > /usr/local/etc/rc.conf file in FreeBSD? The constant changes to the
> > rc.conf file have been playing havoc with my centralized management
> > systems, and it makes it harder and harder to keep the /etc/rc.conf
> > file set immutable (which I like to do on critical servers, to prevent
> > the securelevel from changing).
>
> I keep wanting to suggest using the already-existent /etc/rc.conf.local,
> but now that you mention that you want to lock out changes to stuff like
> securelevel, it makes more sense why you'd want to split it off.
>
> --
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