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 ----------------------------------------------------------------------- For a world of pedigree OSs FreeBSD - top breeders recommend it <http://www.freebsd.org> Joachim Kuebart <joa@delos.lf.net> Tel: +49 711 653706 <joa@stuttgart.netsurf.de> Germany <joki@kuebart.stuttgart.netsurf.de>
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