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To: Richard Wackerbarth <rkw@dataplex.net>
Cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org, syssgm@detir.qld.gov.au
Subject: Re: Possible fix for rc.conf 
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    from Richard Wackerbarth at "Sun, 21 Mar 1999 04:48:05 -0600"
Date: Mon, 22 Mar 1999 00:39:46 +1000
From: Stephen McKay <syssgm@detir.qld.gov.au>
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On Sunday, 21st March 1999, Richard Wackerbarth wrote:

>Why do we need to have ANY of the file inclusion in /etc/defaults/rc.conf?
>Shouldn't that file simply be definitions of variables?
>IMHO, the "logic" should be in "rc" itself.

Yeah!  What he said!

Having code in rc.conf sucks.  If there is no logic, there can be no
recursion.  If you are going to mix code into rc.conf you may as well
just suck it back into /etc/rc and get rid of it entirely. (*)

Stephen.

(*) Which is silly, of course.


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