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Date:      Thu, 19 Feb 2004 13:57:44 -0800
From:      Ted Cabeen <ted@impulse.net>
To:        "slave-mike" <slave-mike@slavepix.com>
Cc:        freebsd-ports@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Feature Request: /usr/local/etc/rc.conf support
Message-ID:  <87y8qywx47.fsf@gray.impulse.net>
In-Reply-To: <001401c3f732$93405c40$c700a8c0@lxfvm8jmsx9muk3> (slave-mike@slavepix.com's message of "Thu, 19 Feb 2004 16:51:47 -0500")
References:  <87u11p8sl6.fsf@gray.impulse.net> <20040218180829.B43291@carver.gumbysoft.com> <001401c3f732$93405c40$c700a8c0@lxfvm8jmsx9muk3>

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"slave-mike" <slave-mike@slavepix.com> writes:

> 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 ???

That would work, but you would still have the overriding important
settings problem.

> ----- 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.
>>
>> -- 
>> Doug White                    |  FreeBSD: The Power to Serve
>> dwhite@gumbysoft.com          |  www.FreeBSD.org
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>

-- 
Ted Cabeen
Sr. Systems/Network Administrator
Impulse Internet Services



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