From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Mar 31 8:30:21 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from tomts1-srv.bellnexxia.net (tomts1.bellnexxia.net [209.226.175.139]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 79E4837B8F0 for ; Fri, 31 Mar 2000 08:30:19 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from transmogrify@sympatico.ca) Received: from sympatico.ca ([207.236.126.23]) by tomts1-srv.bellnexxia.net (InterMail vM.4.01.02.17 201-229-119) with ESMTP id <20000331163018.PYEI912.tomts1-srv.bellnexxia.net@sympatico.ca> for ; Fri, 31 Mar 2000 11:30:18 -0500 Message-ID: <38E4D250.4DFC76D4@sympatico.ca> Date: Fri, 31 Mar 2000 11:29:04 -0500 From: "[ -dp- ]" X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.7 [en] (X11; I; FreeBSD 3.4-STABLE i386) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Where do those startup scripts go? Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG good morning: It has been said to _never_ place startup scripts in rc.conf, rc.local, etc, due to the fact that they are regularly parsed by other programs. Sounds fine, however isn't /usr/local/etc/rc.d referenced to via rc.conf? And this being the case, we would assume that it will be parsed every time rc.conf is called? If rc.conf is called again during runtime, I am sure that it is called to with a variable so that the entire file is not parsed ? Please correct me if I am wrong, this came to me in a dream. I myslef have always referenced them from rc.conf since day one, and my machine has yet to blow up. -- [ - deadpoint - ] ============================================================================ Don't underestimate the power of stupid people in large groups. Email: dp@penix.org BIO: http://bling.dyn.dhs.org GPG Key fingerprint: 2D7C A7E2 DB1F EA5F 8C6F  D5EC 3D39 F274 4AA3 E8B9 Public Key available here: http://bling.dyn.dhs.org/dp.asc ============================================================================ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message