Date: Tue, 29 Apr 1997 21:50:26 +0200 (MET DST) From: Joachim Kuebart <joki@kuebart.stuttgart.netsurf.de> To: "Brian N. Handy" <handy@sag.space.lockheed.com> Cc: Jordan Hubbard <jkh@freebsd.org>, hackers@freebsd.org Subject: RE: Confused over new rc.* changes Message-ID: <XFMail.970429220745.joki@jocki.domestic.de> In-Reply-To: <Pine.OSF.3.96.970429092037.11718B-100000@sag.space.lockheed.com>
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On 29-Apr-97 at 16:27:43 Brian N. Handy wrote:
>So I got lucky and I'm updating a new machine with Jordan's rearranged
>rc.* changes. I've got a question already...
>
>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
>this documented anywhere? So far all I can find is the stuff in the cvs
>tree related to Jordan's commits, and I'm not sure I understand the way
>things flow here yet.
I had this problem :-) Then, when I installed an other system from scratch, the
rc.i386 got put into /etc. It gets called from /etc/rc at the point where it
says
arch=`uname -m`
if [ -f /etc/rc.${arch} ]; then
. /etc/rc.${arch}
fi
c u Jo
>
>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
>problem getting myself situated with the new system.
>
>Happy trails
>
>
>Brian
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