Date: Sun, 20 Jan 2002 17:04:56 -0800 From: "Crist J . Clark" <cjc@FreeBSD.ORG> To: Ray Kohler <rkohler1@cox.rr.com> Cc: Dan Trainor <dan@ript.org>, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: question about rc.conf Message-ID: <20020120170456.C66815@blossom.cjclark.org> In-Reply-To: <090b83912051412FE7@mail7.mgfairfax.rr.com>; from rkohler1@cox.rr.com on Sun, Jan 20, 2002 at 12:15:48AM -0500 References: <009c01c1a16d$1c1a7e10$0100a8c0@broken> <090b83912051412FE7@mail7.mgfairfax.rr.com>
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On Sun, Jan 20, 2002 at 12:15:48AM -0500, Ray Kohler wrote:
> On Saturday 19 January 2002 11:44 pm, Dan Trainor wrote:
[snip]
> > or do I just
> > add those little startup scripts directly to /etc/rc.conf?
>
> Never heard of doing that. Sounds like a big pain to keep up with.
Do _NOT_ put commands in /etc/rc.conf. Three good reasons:
(1) There is no guarantee when in the rc(8) startup /etc/rc.conf is
first called.
(2) There is no guarantee that /etc/rc.conf will only be run once
during startup.
(3) There is no guarantee that /etc/rc.conf will not run by the
system at times other than startup.
--
Crist J. Clark | cjclark@alum.mit.edu
| cjclark@jhu.edu
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