From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Aug 17 14:08:49 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 86B3D16A4CE for ; Tue, 17 Aug 2004 14:08:49 +0000 (GMT) Received: from c00l3r.networx.ch (c00l3r.networx.ch [62.48.2.2]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B47DB43D39 for ; Tue, 17 Aug 2004 14:08:48 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from andre@freebsd.org) Received: (qmail 35514 invoked from network); 17 Aug 2004 14:08:06 -0000 Received: from dotat.atdotat.at (HELO [62.48.0.47]) ([62.48.0.47]) (envelope-sender ) by c00l3r.networx.ch (qmail-ldap-1.03) with SMTP for ; 17 Aug 2004 14:08:06 -0000 Message-ID: <4122116C.8010409@freebsd.org> Date: Tue, 17 Aug 2004 16:08:44 +0200 From: Andre Oppermann User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.7) Gecko/20040608 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Brad Knowles References: <200408170822.32183.jhandvil@tampabay.rr.com> <61422.1092748299@bizet.nethelp.no> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit cc: jhandvil@tampabay.rr.com cc: current@freebsd.org cc: sthaug@nethelp.no Subject: Re: RFC: Alternate patch to have true new-style rc.d scripts in ports(without touching localpkg) X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 17 Aug 2004 14:08:49 -0000 Brad Knowles wrote: > At 3:11 PM +0200 2004-08-17, sthaug@nethelp.no wrote: > >> - Why cannot /usr/local/etc/rc.d be used with rcorder if /etc/rc.d/local >> is okay? > > You can't guarantee that /usr/local is on the same filesystem as > /etc (and available early in the boot process), and while you can't > guarantee that /etc/rc.d/local is also on the same filesytem, it's a lot > easier for some people to guarantee. > > Moreover, many sites may mount /usr read-only, or /usr/local non-suid. So? How does this prevent rc scripts being used from /usr or /usr/local? -- Andre