From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Jan 4 15: 8:47 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from dorifer.heim3.tu-clausthal.de (dorifer.heim3.tu-clausthal.de [139.174.243.252]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8668014E7E for ; Tue, 4 Jan 2000 15:08:42 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from olli@dorifer.heim3.tu-clausthal.de) Received: (from olli@localhost) by dorifer.heim3.tu-clausthal.de (8.9.3/8.9.3) id AAA35353; Wed, 5 Jan 2000 00:08:38 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from olli) Date: Wed, 5 Jan 2000 00:08:38 +0100 (CET) Message-Id: <200001042308.AAA35353@dorifer.heim3.tu-clausthal.de> From: Oliver Fromme To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Script to run at bootup X-Newsgroups: list.freebsd-questions In-Reply-To: <84ttrj$ab6$1@atlantis.rz.tu-clausthal.de> User-Agent: tin/1.4.1-19991201 ("Polish") (UNIX) (FreeBSD/3.4-19991219-STABLE (i386)) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Morten Seeberg wrote in list.freebsd-questions: >> Yes. In fact, much earlier than that -- it has been >> deprecated and obsolated in 2.x-stable days. >> Use /usr/local/etc/rc.d instead. > > I never even knew this, will I risk loosing rc.local in the future??? Probably not, don't worry. It will probably stay with us for a while, for compatibility reasons. > It´s so easy to use, just add a line and thats it. Placing a shell script in /usr/local/etc/rc.d isn't more diffi- cult. > I know Im lazy, but why > should rc.d be better? It's more flecible, easier to maintain, and local additions do belong in /usr/local. Regards Oliver -- Oliver Fromme, Leibnizstr. 18/61, 38678 Clausthal, Germany (Info: finger userinfo:olli@dorifer.heim3.tu-clausthal.de) "In jedem Stück Kohle wartet ein Diamant auf seine Geburt" (Terry Pratchett) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message