Date: Tue, 30 Jun 1998 14:46:18 -0700 From: Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au> To: "Matthew D. Fuller" <fullermd@futuresouth.com> Cc: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@time.cdrom.com>, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Adding a new user interface to FreeBSD administration Message-ID: <199806302146.OAA08168@dingo.cdrom.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 30 Jun 1998 16:33:13 CDT." <19980630163313.49201@futuresouth.com>
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> On Mon, Jun 29, 1998 at 04:29:31PM -0700, Jordan K. Hubbard woke me up to tell me:
> >
> > linux(enabled) = YES
> > linux(doc) = { This variable controls whether linux emulation support
> > will be automatically loaded at startup. You can also do it manually
> > with the /usr/bin/linux command. }
> > linux(exec-command) = "linux > /dev/null 2>&1"
>
> OK, so what's wrong with a simple /etc/rc.conf script that looks
> something like:
It doesn't scale.
> This is just scribbling down after 30 seconds thought, don't trust my
> syntax. But you get the general movement; that leaves you with one file
> to edit (maybe add a rc.local to that too, to have a seperate file for
> local changes). It makes it simple for an install script for, say, ssh,
> to just echo/cat 3 lines onto the end of /etc/rc.local to start it up,
> eliminating the /usr/local/etc/rc.d hack/kludge also.
Yes. And you could call it /etc/rc too.
Wrong direction, sorry.
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