Date: Tue, 14 Mar 2000 16:20:04 -0800 (PST) From: "Matthew D. Fuller" <fullermd@futuresouth.com> To: freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: bin/17378: periodic(8) doesn't care about the local /etc/rc.conf Message-ID: <200003150020.QAA35572@freefall.freebsd.org>
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The following reply was made to PR bin/17378; it has been noted by GNATS.
From: "Matthew D. Fuller" <fullermd@futuresouth.com>
To: FreeBSD-gnats-submit@FreeBSD.ORG
Cc:
Subject: Re: bin/17378: periodic(8) doesn't care about the local /etc/rc.conf
Date: Tue, 14 Mar 2000 18:16:53 -0600
On Wed, Mar 15, 2000 at 12:56:02AM +0100, a little birdie told me
that Palle Girgensohn remarked
>
> >Description:
> in /usr/sbin/periodic, the shell script first eat
> /etc/defaults/rc.conf and then only if that file does not exist does
> it try to read /etc/rc.conf. Isn't /etc/rc.conf supposed to override
> /etc/defaults/rc.conf?
root% tail -6 /etc/defaults/rc.conf
for i in ${rc_conf_files}; do
if [ -f $i ]; then
. $i
fi
done
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