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From: Ray Kohler <rkohler1@cox.rr.com>
To: "Dan Trainor" <dan@ript.org>, <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject: Re: question about rc.conf
Date: Sun, 20 Jan 2002 00:15:48 -0500
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On Saturday 19 January 2002 11:44 pm, Dan Trainor wrote:
> Reading through thhe /etc/defaults/rc.conf file, I see this:
>
> local_startup="/usr/local/etc/rc.d
>
> Is it "standard practice" to use that, and drop all startup
> scripts that come with applications inside that dir,

Yes.

> or do I just
> add those little startup scripts directly to /etc/rc.conf?

Never heard of doing that. Sounds like a big pain to keep up with.

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Ray Kohler
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