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Date:      Wed, 10 Oct 2007 09:26:11 -0700
From:      "David O'Brien" <obrien@FreeBSD.org>
To:        Dag-Erling =?unknown-8bit?B?U23DuHJncmF2?= <des@des.no>
Cc:        cvs-src@FreeBSD.org, Doug Barton <dougb@FreeBSD.org>, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org, src-committers@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: cvs commit: src/etc/rc.d early.sh
Message-ID:  <20071010162611.GA12085@dragon.NUXI.org>
In-Reply-To: <86hckzgthr.fsf@ds4.des.no>
References:  <200710090730.l997UEEF042804@repoman.freebsd.org> <20071010002930.GA91077@dragon.NUXI.org> <86hckzgthr.fsf@ds4.des.no>

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On Wed, Oct 10, 2007 at 12:21:36PM +0200, Dag-Erling Smrgrav wrote:
> "David O'Brien" <obrien@FreeBSD.org> writes:
> > On Tue, Oct 09, 2007 at 07:30:14AM +0000, Doug Barton wrote:
> > >   Modified files:
> > >     etc/rc.d             early.sh 
> > >   Log:
> > >   Deprecate use of the early.sh script as advertised when the support for
> > >   local rc.d scripts in the overall boot order was added.
> > ". /etc/rc.early" in /etc/rc will stay?  Correct?
> 
> There is no ". /etc/rc.early" in /etc/rc; /etc/rc.early is run by
> /etc/rc.d/early.sh.

Oh my, you're right.  It was a localism I added back from when it was
removed in rc rev. 1.329.
 
> I must confess I don't really see the point of this change.  Yes,
> people can write rc.d scripts instead, but not (by far) as easily as
> they can add a line or two to rc.early.

Agreed - thats why I manually put it back in /etc/rc.
 
-- 
-- David  (obrien@FreeBSD.org)



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