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Date:      Fri, 20 Feb 2004 13:04:09 -0600
From:      "Matthew D. Fuller" <fullermd@over-yonder.net>
To:        ticso@cicely.de
Cc:        current@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Feature Request: /usr/local/etc/rc.conf support
Message-ID:  <20040220190409.GB83916@over-yonder.net>
In-Reply-To: <20040220135811.GM44313@cicely12.cicely.de>
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On Fri, Feb 20, 2004 at 02:58:11PM +0100 I heard the voice of
Bernd Walter, and lo! it spake thus:
> 
> The nice about having this in /etc is that this is a machine directory,
> while /usr/local might be shared over multiple machines.

Well, that's probably overly precise enough to require customing
anyway.  However, it should be fairly easy for you to add hooks into a
/usr/local/etc/rc.conf for it.  F'r'instance, my .tcshrc (on my
website) checks for both .tcshrc.`hostname -s` and .tcshrc.`hostname`
(though the strings are determined differently for portability) for
local settings, so I can share my $HOME across multiple machines and
have different env variables and aliases without making a bunch of
unreadable conditionals in the file.


-- 
Matthew Fuller     (MF4839)   |  fullermd@over-yonder.net
Systems/Network Administrator |  http://www.over-yonder.net/~fullermd/

"The only reason I'm burning my candle at both ends, is because I
      haven't figured out how to light the middle yet"



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