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Date:      Fri, 11 Dec 1998 22:55:05 -0800
From:      "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@zippy.cdrom.com>
To:        shmit@kublai.com
Cc:        dima@best.net, Matthew Dillon <dillon@apollo.backplane.com>, des@flood.ping.uio.no, committers@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: /etc/rc.local 
Message-ID:  <23818.913445705@zippy.cdrom.com>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sat, 12 Dec 1998 00:17:42 EST." <19981212001742.L29799@kublai.com> 

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> It does? I've rarely worked with a machine that has an empty
> rc.local.  What if I want to run MySQL, or Apache, or ftpd in stand
> alone mode, or any of the millions of other things that people can
> do in rc.local?

The answer is that such things no longer belong in rc.local; we've
already transitioned away from this (long ago) in favor of the rc.d/
mechanism.  You can't argue for new mechanisms and against them
in the same breath. :-)

- Jordan

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