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Date:      Fri, 11 Jul 1997 21:41:53 -0700
From:      "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@time.cdrom.com>
To:        "Louis A. Mamakos" <louie@TransSys.COM>
Cc:        asami@cs.berkeley.edu (Satoshi Asami), current@FreeBSD.ORG, hans@brandinnovators.com
Subject:   Re: Heads up and and a call for a show of hands. 
Message-ID:  <3321.868682513@time.cdrom.com>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Fri, 11 Jul 1997 23:51:36 EDT." <199707120351.XAA18977@whizzo.TransSys.COM> 

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> I've used it locally to handle [incr tcl] which is installed in a different
> location and it sure beats having to edit a file, etc.  And using the
> /usr/local/etc/rc.d script, you can invoke arbitrary policy (see if a
> directory that might be on removable media exists, etc) before adding
> directories to the list.

Heh - actually, I also forgot to mention that the whole rc.d script
thing has some inherent limitations as currently implement: What if,
for example, you require that certain initialization be done in a
given order?  Not at all a far-fetched scenario.

					Jordan



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