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Date:      Tue, 20 Jul 2004 00:10:01 +0200
From:      "Cyrille Lefevre" <clefevre-lists@9online.fr>
To:        "Mike Makonnen" <mtm@identd.net>, "Oliver Eikemeier" <eikemeier@fillmore-labs.com>
Cc:        freebsd-rc@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: localpkg script changes
Message-ID:  <040d01c46ddd$25798f20$7890a8c0@dyndns.org>
References:  <38080924-D73B-11D8-8DBE-00039312D914@fillmore-labs.com>

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"Oliver Eikemeier" <eikemeier@fillmore-labs.com> wrote:
> Mike Makonnen wrote:
[snip]
> > It's not as simple as that. Besides the security implications there are 
> > also
> > many possible corner cases. To name just a couple: diskless, / (root 
> > partition),
> > /usr/local, /usr/X11R6 on different partitions or even mounted 
> > remotely, etc...
> 
> I can't see any security implications here, and when you manage to get 
> things working diskless, I can't see any problems when /usr/local and 
> /usr/X11R6 are on different partitions... Could you just name some 
> *real* problems instead of just stating that it is `difficult', so that 
> we can start to work on them?

I suppose that if you want to mix /etc/rc.d and /usr/local/etc/rc.d startup
files, you can't since /usr/local/etc/rc.d may not be accessible at the time
where rcorder is executed since /usr/local will be mounted after.

Cyrille Lefevre.
-- 
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