Date: Tue, 18 Jul 2000 03:26:34 +0000 From: Nik Clayton <nik@freebsd.org> To: Ben Smithurst <ben@FreeBSD.org> Cc: Nik Clayton <nik@freebsd.org>, "Daniel C. Sobral" <dcs@newsguy.com>, freebsd-doc@freebsd.org Subject: Re: rc.d and rc.local Message-ID: <20000718032634.B2747@kilt.nothing-going-on.org> In-Reply-To: <20000717214927.B4668@strontium.scientia.demon.co.uk>; from ben@FreeBSD.org on Mon, Jul 17, 2000 at 09:49:27PM %2B0100 References: <396F6607.6C764850@newsguy.com> <20000715031452.C20004@kilt.nothing-going-on.org> <20000717214927.B4668@strontium.scientia.demon.co.uk>
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On Mon, Jul 17, 2000 at 09:49:27PM +0100, Ben Smithurst wrote:
> > On Sat, Jul 15, 2000 at 04:12:07AM +0900, Daniel C. Sobral wrote:
> >> The rc(8) man page has many remarks to the effect that rc.local has been
> >> deprecated in favour of rc.d, but there is no man page about rc.d.
> >> Something really ought to be done about this.
> >
> > Bollocks. I hit ^C in the fetchmail window, and it didn't download your
> > patch. Can you resend it please?
>
> ok, here's my first attempt at this. It's probably a bit rough around
> the edges, but it might provide a starting point.
Looks OK to me, I'll let Sheldon (Capt'n Man Page) add any comments he
wants :-)
One thing though -- I thought that
foo.sh start
and
foo.sh
were identical. Your example doesn't do that. I didn't follow the
discussion too closely (I took part in a similar one 18 months ago, and
I'm still recovering from it), so I could be wrong.
N
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