From owner-freebsd-current Tue Aug 1 17:30:35 1995 Return-Path: current-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.11/8.6.6) id RAA17764 for current-outgoing; Tue, 1 Aug 1995 17:30:35 -0700 Received: from hutcs.cs.hut.fi (hutcs.cs.hut.fi [130.233.192.2]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.11/8.6.6) with SMTP id RAA17752 for ; Tue, 1 Aug 1995 17:30:33 -0700 Received: from shadows.cs.hut.fi by hutcs.cs.hut.fi with SMTP id AA14701 (5.65c8/HUTCS-S 1.4 for ); Wed, 2 Aug 1995 03:30:29 +0300 Received: (hsu@localhost) by shadows.cs.hut.fi (8.6.10/8.6.10) id DAA27953; Wed, 2 Aug 1995 03:30:35 +0300 Date: Wed, 2 Aug 1995 03:30:35 +0300 Message-Id: <199508020030.DAA27953@shadows.cs.hut.fi> From: Heikki Suonsivu To: "Rodney W. Grimes" Cc: freebsd-current@freefall.cdrom.com In-Reply-To: "Rodney W. Grimes"'s message of 26 Jul 1995 15:43:31 +0300 Subject: Re: Knobs in /etc/sysconfig Organization: Helsinki University of Technology, Otaniemi, Finland Sender: current-owner@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > > Why not appended it to /etc/rc.local > The purist in me cries for rc.local to be shipped empty ! And some day it will be. Actually, some day it won't even ship more than likely. > The pragmatist in me admits rc.local was never really local ;-) True, but that does not mean we can't give it back to the rightful owner like we did with /usr/local. Probability of all OS authors give it up won't be here soon. As long as its only FreeBSD which does the right thing, but none of the other systems I need to keep running, it approximates null effect to me and I will keep adding if [ -x /usr/local/etc/rc.`hostname` ] then /usr/local/etc/rc.`hostname` fi to all my systems /etc/rc.local. Other than that, though, it works with my scheme to have empty rc.local, so I certainly don't mind cleaning it up. I guess it is hopeless to hope that *nothing* in root and usr would be user's configureable; all configuration would be in /usr/local hierarchy. This would eliminate need to back up configuration files and reinstalling them when doing a full reinstall (I always forget a couple of them; "ahem... what daemons was this one actually running..." :-). A little help has been gradually moving configurations to a single master machine and rdisting them to others, and not backing up the root and usr partitions. But this is clumsy, rdist won't work on all systems, and rdist has security problems. -- Heikki Suonsivu, T{ysikuu 10 C 83/02210 Espoo/FINLAND, hsu@cs.hut.fi home +358-0-8031121 work -4513377 fax -4555276 riippu SN