Date: Thu, 24 Oct 1996 19:48:46 +0200 From: Mark Murray <mark@grondar.za> To: Bill Paul <wpaul@skynet.ctr.columbia.edu> Cc: current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: /etc/rc* stuff Message-ID: <199610241748.TAA13931@grumble.grondar.za>
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I wrote that rndcontrol(8) program, so I'll fix it. It is a little too
chatty by default. That will fix the extra `echo "."'
M
Bill Paul wrote:
> Just a couple of small nits:
>
> - At the very end of /etc/rc.i386, we have this:
>
> [begin snippage]
> echo '.'
>
> # interrupts for /dev/random device
> if [ "X${rand_irqs}" != X"NO" ] ; then
> echo -n 'entropy source: '
> rndcontrol ${rand_irqs}
> fi
>
> echo '.' # probably bogus
> [end snippage]
>
> The 'probably bogus' comment is true: if you don't have rand_irqs set
> to anything, you get an extra '.' printed on a line all by itself.
> This has bugged me for a while. (I'm funny that way.) What's the correct
> way to fix this? Should the entropy source message be part of the
> '386 specific' config messages or should it be a seperate caterory,
> and thus be on a line by itself? Put another way, should the first
> "echo '.'" go away, or should the 'probably bogus' one be moved inside
> the if/fi clause?
>
> - Even though we have rpc.lockd and rpc.statd in the tree now, there
> are no knobs for it in /etc/sysconfig or /etc/rc. Shouldn't we be
> be starting them if NFS is turned on?
>
> -Bill
>
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