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From: Sheldon Hearn <sheldonh@uunet.co.za>
To: Ben Smithurst <ben@FreeBSD.org>
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Subject: Re: rc.d and rc.local 
In-reply-to: Your message of "Tue, 18 Jul 2000 13:18:49 +0100."
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On Tue, 18 Jul 2000 13:18:49 +0100, Ben Smithurst wrote:

> .Sh HISTORY
> The
> .Nm
> system first appeared in its current form
> .Po
> with scripts run at both boot time and shutdown time
> .Pc
> in
> .Fx 5.0 ,
> though it has existed in a more basic form since
> .Fx 2.2 .

Make that Fx 4.0 instead of Fx 5.0, since this'll definitely be merged
into 4.x at some stage.

Also, you can drop the "has" in "has existed".

> Also, the .Nd line was shamelessly stolen from rc(8), which should
> probably be fixed.  I don't really like the SYNOPSIS either, but rc(8)
> does the same sort of thing.

More evidence that this should be part of the rc(8) manual page. :-)

Ciao,
Sheldon.


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