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To: Peter Wemm <peter@netplex.com.au>
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Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/etc rc 
In-reply-to: Your message of "Tue, 26 Jan 1999 13:23:18 +0800."
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Date: Mon, 25 Jan 1999 21:27:47 -0800
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From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@zippy.cdrom.com>
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> rc.conf should be safe and without side effects so that it is useable by 
> other programs as a means of fetching configuration variables.

I might also add that those programs which edit it, like
/etc/sysinstall, will not take kindly to finding other things in there
at present. :)

- Jordan

P.S. That said, I may modify sysinstall to write to /etc/rc.conf.local
instead.

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