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Date:      Fri, 11 Dec 1998 21:06:35 -0800 (PST)
From:      dima@best.net (Dima Ruban)
To:        dillon@apollo.backplane.com (Matthew Dillon)
Cc:        shmit@kublai.com, jkh@zippy.cdrom.com, des@flood.ping.uio.no, committers@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: /etc/rc.local
Message-ID:  <199812120506.VAA76531@burka.rdy.com>
In-Reply-To: <199812120400.UAA42050@apollo.backplane.com> from Matthew Dillon at "Dec 11, 1998  8: 0: 2 pm"

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Matthew Dillon writes:
>     It sounds to me that it wouldn't be too hard to move rc.local's minimal
>     'default' functionality (the handling of /etc/motd) to /etc/rc and adding
>     an rc.conf variable to enable it or disable it, defaulted to on.

Yes, it wouldn't be hard to do it, but I don't exactly see a point
doing it. rc.local is empty and usually it stays empty (or almost empty).
I'd say - leave as it is now.

> 
>     That would leave rc.local empty and untouched.  As it probably should be.
> 
>     The worse that would happen is that /etc/motd would be regenerated twice
>     during boot.  Not a big deal, I think.
> 
> 					-Matt
> 
> 
>     Matthew Dillon  Engineering, HiWay Technologies, Inc. & BEST Internet 
>                     Communications & God knows what else.
>     <dillon@backplane.com> (Please include original email in any response)    
> 

-- dima

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