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Date:      Fri, 6 Jun 1997 15:20:49 +0930 (CST)
From:      Michael Smith <msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au>
To:        jkh@time.cdrom.com (Jordan K. Hubbard)
Cc:        msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Any objection to the following?
Message-ID:  <199706060550.PAA01623@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au>
In-Reply-To: <18901.865575515@time.cdrom.com> from "Jordan K. Hubbard" at "Jun 5, 97 10:38:35 pm"

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Jordan K. Hubbard stands accused of saying:
> > Hmm.  Any reason it can't just be a list in rc.conf?  The basic idea 
> > is OK, althought you might want to consider /usr/local/etc/ld.so.conf
> > as well for use/manipulation by ports...
> 
> Well, if I went that route then it also wouldn't really be correct
> unless done in fashion of the local_startup list, and I'm not sure I'm
> willing to go quite that far yet. :-)

Ok, how about something like a "local_etc" searchpath, containing
directories which might contain etc-like files?  I'm just thinking of
this as a poor cousin to some of the other solutions for a read-only
/etc.

> 					Jordan

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