Date: Thu, 30 Mar 1995 13:37:14 -0800 (PST) From: "Rodney W. Grimes" <rgrimes@gndrsh.aac.dev.com> To: phk@ref.tfs.com (Poul-Henning Kamp) Cc: ache@freefall.cdrom.com, CVS-commiters@freefall.cdrom.com, cvs-etc@freefall.cdrom.com Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/etc/etc.i386 rc.i386 Message-ID: <199503302137.NAA06580@gndrsh.aac.dev.com> In-Reply-To: <199503301942.LAA14066@ref.tfs.com> from "Poul-Henning Kamp" at Mar 30, 95 11:42:28 am
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> > I have about 5 or 6 things stacked up in my box right now that have
> > to do with /etc/rc* and such...
> >
>
> While we have the war going, can I suggest we add this to the end of
> /etc/rc:
>
> if [ -d /etc/rc.d ] ; then
> for i in /etc/rc.d/*
^^^^
Very dangerous. I am already trying to fix a bug report about
/etc/netstart:for i in /etc/hostname.*
matching things like hostname.ed0~ and hostname.ed0.bak, etc.
The proposed solution was hostname.*[0-9], but that fails for
folks with things like hostname.sl21 (yes, it is possible to
have that many slip lines, though I doubt people are managing
it with our /etc/netstart!!!).
I have another proposal before me that adds variable(s) to sysconfig
that says what interfaces we have, and what values to use for them.
This totally eliminates /etc/hostname.*, but will make it harder for
the install stuff to do the right things as it would have to learn
how to edit /etc/sysconfig :-(.
> do
> if [ -f $i ] ; then
> sh $i start
> fi
> done
> fi
>
> There is >no way< presently for a package of any kind to get a clean
> hook into the boot-sequence.
> This is bad, stupid and evil.
In BSD this has always been done by root editing /etc/rc.local, I never
did like things that automagically went and f*cked around in /etc,
I consider that evil and ugle.
--
Rod Grimes rgrimes@gndrsh.aac.dev.com
Accurate Automation Company Custom computers for FreeBSD
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