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To: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@freefall.freebsd.org>
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Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/etc rc sysconfig 
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Date: Tue, 19 Sep 1995 12:19:56 PDT
From: Bill Fenner <fenner@parc.xerox.com>
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In message <199509191019.DAA24483@freefall.freebsd.org> you write:
>  [ -f /etc/rc.local ] && sh /etc/rc.local
>  For backwards compatibilty with non-executable rc.local files. 

Um, backwards compatibility?  I hope none of the rc files are executable; you 
can cause a lot of damage by running an rc by mistake.

(UNICOS gets particularly upset, someone I know took down a cray because they 
had their fingers on the wrong keys and tried to type 'tv'...)

  Bill