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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