Date: Fri, 31 Mar 2000 09:43:42 -0800 From: Alfred Perlstein <bright@wintelcom.net> To: "[ -dp- ]" <transmogrify@sympatico.ca> Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Where do those startup scripts go? Message-ID: <20000331094341.L21029@fw.wintelcom.net> In-Reply-To: <38E4D250.4DFC76D4@sympatico.ca>; from transmogrify@sympatico.ca on Fri, Mar 31, 2000 at 11:29:04AM -0500 References: <38E4D250.4DFC76D4@sympatico.ca>
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* [ -dp- ] <transmogrify@sympatico.ca> [000331 08:55] wrote: > 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. I already explained this to you, if you want you can add commands to /etc/rc.local or /usr/local/etc/rc.d/apache.sh (or mysql.sh or whatever as long as it ends with .sh) rc.conf should only be used to set variables like: foo="bar" it shouldn't be used to run any commands because it is sourced by multiple startup and periodic scripts. -- -Alfred Perlstein - [bright@wintelcom.net|alfred@freebsd.org] "I have the heart of a child, I keep it in a jar on my desk." To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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