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From: Paul Richards <paul@freebsd.netcraft.co.uk>
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Subject: Re: Announcing 2.0.5-950622-SNAP
To: rgrimes@gndrsh.aac.dev.com (Rodney W. Grimes)
Date: Mon, 26 Jun 1995 18:36:37 +0100 (BST)
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In reply to Rodney W. Grimes who said
> 
> > 
> > > Well, this has been simplified to a great extent by /etc/sysconfig.
> > > It's my intention that ALL of the mutable files in /etc eventually
> > > collapse to just /etc/sysconfig, and there's never any reason at all
> > > for the user to modify the others.
> > 
> > Well, I regularly turn of lpd...  but that's in rc, so I guess a flag
> > for that would help.
> A knob flag will be added... along with an args variable since lpd
> also takes options and arguments that some sites need to set.
> 
> > How would we handle things that currently I put
> > into rc.local (httpd)?
> 
> Wouldn't, httpd is not part of the base system and should in no way
> be handled by the base system.

Umm, yeah, but how do I specify I want to start httpd if I don't put
it in rc.local ?

The problem is not that there is site specific stuff in rc.local
but that that there is generic stuff in there which shouldn't be.

That file should be empty and nothing more than a hook out from rc
that I can use to start and set local stuff. It would then not need
to be touched or even looked at by an upgrade procedure.

-- 
  Paul Richards, Bluebird Computer Systems. FreeBSD core team member. 
  Internet: paul@FreeBSD.org, http://www.freebsd.org/~paul
  Phone: 0370 462071 (Mobile), +44 1222 457651 (home)