From owner-cvs-all Mon Dec 14 07:11:59 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id HAA01738 for cvs-all-outgoing; Mon, 14 Dec 1998 07:11:59 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from shadow.worldbank.org (shadow.worldbank.org [138.220.104.78]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id HAA01730 for ; Mon, 14 Dec 1998 07:11:57 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from adhir@worldbank.org) Received: from localhost (adhir@localhost) by shadow.worldbank.org (8.9.1/8.9.1) with ESMTP id KAA49233; Mon, 14 Dec 1998 10:10:46 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from adhir@worldbank.org) X-Authentication-Warning: shadow.worldbank.org: adhir owned process doing -bs Date: Mon, 14 Dec 1998 10:10:46 -0500 (EST) From: "Alok K. Dhir" To: Dag-Erling Smorgrav cc: committers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: /etc/rc.local In-Reply-To: <96BDC1F54DC6ECD8852566D70074A12A.0076927E852566D7@worldbank.org> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk You may want to take a look at mergemaster (in ports). At least you won't have to do 'cp /usr/src/etc/rc* /etc' any longer... Regards On Fri, 11 Dec 1998, Dag-Erling Smorgrav wrote: > > > I find it illogical that this file contains actual code, whereas all > other *local files are optional local additions. Would it not make > sense to move the code in rc.local (which updates /etc/motd) to rc, > and remove rc.local? At least it'll save me the pain of forgetting > that I have local mods and nuking it with 'cp /usr/src/etc/rc* /etc'. > > DES > -- > Dag-Erling Smorgrav - des@flood.ping.uio.no > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message