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To: "Brian N. Handy" <handy@sag.space.lockheed.com>
cc: hackers@FreeBSD.org, Jordan Hubbard <jkh@FreeBSD.org>
Subject: Re: Confused over new rc.* changes 
In-reply-to: Your message of "Tue, 29 Apr 1997 09:27:43 PDT."
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Date: Tue, 29 Apr 1997 10:20:34 -0700
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From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@time.cdrom.com>
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> In /usr/src/etc there's now an etc.i386 directory which contains rc.i386.
> I've poked through the remaining rc files and I can't see where this gets
> called from.  Is this file supposed to live in /etc/ or /etc/etc.i386?  Is

It's called from /etc/rc:

# configure implementation specific stuff
arch=`uname -m`
if [ -f /etc/rc.${arch} ]; then
        . /etc/rc.${arch}
fi 

> I like the new rc.conf setup, although it's not radically different from
> sysconfig it's a lot simpler to look through for stuff.  I'm just having a

That was the basic idea - nothing too radical, just evolutionary. :)

						Jordan