Date: Tue, 27 Jul 2004 19:25:07 +0300 From: Mike Makonnen <mtm@identd.net> To: Scot Hetzel <swhetzel@gmail.com> Cc: Joe Marcus Clarke <marcus@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: [Fwd: Recent changes to rc.d on -CURRENT] Message-ID: <20040727162506.GA81394@rogue.acs-et.com> In-Reply-To: <790a9fff04072707357dae728d@mail.gmail.com> References: <1090870254.6881.31.camel@shumai.marcuscom.com> <20040726193539.GA76196@nagual.pp.ru> <1090871921.6881.49.camel@shumai.marcuscom.com> <20040726214357.GA80423@nagual.pp.ru> <1090878694.6881.78.camel@shumai.marcuscom.com> <20040726220821.GA80533@nagual.pp.ru> <20040727064438.GA1403@rogue.acs-et.com> <20040727092130.GA93929@nagual.pp.ru> <790a9fff04072707357dae728d@mail.gmail.com>
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On Tue, Jul 27, 2004 at 09:35:33AM -0500, Scot Hetzel wrote: > On Tue, 27 Jul 2004 13:21:30 +0400, Andrey Chernov <ache@nagual.pp.ru> wrote: > > On Tue, Jul 27, 2004 at 09:44:39AM +0300, Mike Makonnen wrote: > > > > > > The rc.d mechanism with respect to sourcing scripts works like this: > > > o scripts ending in '.sh' are sourced in the current subshell > > > o all other scripts are sourced in a subshell. > > > > It is unnecessary complication (innovation). Everybody before localpkg > > using knows he can rename his script to anything excepting ending with > > ..sh. Say, script.sh.old. Now it is executed. Sigh. > > > Only if the script hasn't been converted to rcNG. As rcNG scripts > require the setting of the <name>_enable="YES" variable in > /etc/rc.conf, /etc/rc.conf.local, or /etc/rc.conf.d/<name>, before > they will do any actions. Yes, that is the way it should be. Non rc.d style scripts *must* have a '.sh' extension. That doesn't change. Before anyone mentions it, the committed version doesn't do that, which is a bug. I'll fix it :-) Cheers. -- Mike Makonnen | GPG-KEY: http://www.identd.net/~mtm/mtm.asc mtm@identd.net | Fingerprint: AC7B 5672 2D11 F4D0 EBF8 5279 5359 2B82 7CD4 1F55 mtm@FreeBSD.Org| FreeBSD - Unleash the Daemon !
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