From owner-freebsd-hackers Mon Sep 25 15:38:33 1995 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) id PAA26283 for hackers-outgoing; Mon, 25 Sep 1995 15:38:33 -0700 Received: from phaeton.artisoft.com (phaeton.Artisoft.COM [198.17.250.211]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) with ESMTP id PAA26269 for ; Mon, 25 Sep 1995 15:38:01 -0700 Received: (from terry@localhost) by phaeton.artisoft.com (8.6.11/8.6.9) id PAA06011; Mon, 25 Sep 1995 15:34:10 -0700 From: Terry Lambert Message-Id: <199509252234.PAA06011@phaeton.artisoft.com> Subject: Re: ports startup scripts To: kelly@fsl.noaa.gov (Sean Kelly) Date: Mon, 25 Sep 1995 15:34:10 -0700 (MST) Cc: gryphon@healer.com, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-ports@freebs.org In-Reply-To: <9509252143.AA11504@emu.fsl.noaa.gov> from "Sean Kelly" at Sep 25, 95 03:43:15 pm X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Length: 1376 Sender: owner-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk > It's NOT THAT HARD to use your own built-in pattern recognition > software and hand-configure /etc/rc.local. Unless /etc is read-only and the only method you have to add your own stuff is union mounts (additional directory entries). > Remember Jordan's words: we lost the desktop market, and that seems to > be the primary target of all this proposed reconfiguration. People > using are systems will have enough gray matter to know what to do when > they see: Jordan is wrong. I was in the meeting in the conference room in Sandy, Utah when Kanwahl Rheki "gave way" the UNIX destop. The UNIX desktop was not "lost", it was "conceded without a fight". I don't agree that it was "lost". > % make install > Installing fizzlefrazzle-1.2 > install -c -o bin -g bin -m 555 fizzd /usr/local/libexec > install -c -o bin -g bin -m 555 fizzclean /usr/local/libexec > install -c -o bin -g bin -m 555 fizzle /usr/local/bin > > Installation complete. Now, edit your /etc/rc.local file > and add a line to start fizzd. Also, add fizzclean to root's > cron, set to run every half hour, more if you think you need > it. If /etc is read-only, well, then you're SOL. Terry Lambert terry@lambert.org --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers.