From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Jan 20 17: 5:52 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from swan.prod.itd.earthlink.net (swan.mail.pas.earthlink.net [207.217.120.123]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DCCF637B402 for ; Sun, 20 Jan 2002 17:05:49 -0800 (PST) Received: from dialup-209.247.139.76.dial1.sanjose1.level3.net ([209.247.139.76] helo=blossom.cjclark.org) by swan.prod.itd.earthlink.net with esmtp (Exim 3.33 #1) id 16SSu7-0000er-00; Sun, 20 Jan 2002 17:05:45 -0800 Received: (from cjc@localhost) by blossom.cjclark.org (8.11.6/8.11.3) id g0L152n68088; Sun, 20 Jan 2002 17:05:02 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from cjc) Date: Sun, 20 Jan 2002 17:04:56 -0800 From: "Crist J . Clark" To: Ray Kohler Cc: Dan Trainor , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: question about rc.conf Message-ID: <20020120170456.C66815@blossom.cjclark.org> References: <009c01c1a16d$1c1a7e10$0100a8c0@broken> <090b83912051412FE7@mail7.mgfairfax.rr.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <090b83912051412FE7@mail7.mgfairfax.rr.com>; from rkohler1@cox.rr.com on Sun, Jan 20, 2002 at 12:15:48AM -0500 X-URL: http://people.freebsd.org/~cjc/ Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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 http://people.freebsd.org/~cjc/ | cjc@freebsd.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message