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Date:      Wed, 22 Apr 1998 17:10:33 +0200
From:      Eivind Eklund <eivind@yes.no>
To:        am@f1.ru, freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Disappearing keyboard
Message-ID:  <19980422171033.15915@follo.net>
In-Reply-To: <199804221502.TAA11354@px.f1.ru>; from Andrew Maltsev on Wed, Apr 22, 1998 at 07:02:13PM %2B0400
References:  <199804221502.TAA11354@px.f1.ru>

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On Wed, Apr 22, 1998 at 07:02:13PM +0400, Andrew Maltsev wrote:
> > > I picked up /etc/rc.local simply because it was what the original
> > > poster was using.  I don't care which rc script you would prefer to
> > > use for this purpose.
> >
> > I dislike modifying any of /etc/rc*, though in the case of rc.local
> > it's unjustified :) But it's very neat to be able to do 'cp
> > /usr/src/etc/rc* /usr/src/etc/etc.i386/rc* /etc' without worrying too
> > much during a make world.
> 
> Btw, why not to add a parameter to rc.conf's misc section like:
> 
> xdm_enable="NO"		# Set to YES to enable X display manager
> 
> and add simple script that was posted here some articles earlier to
> rc.local? This will stop the war about where is Rigth Place for xdm.

Because (at present, at least) all programs controlled from rc.conf
are included in the base system.

Eivind.


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