From owner-freebsd-hackers Tue Apr 29 13:08:06 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id NAA06626 for hackers-outgoing; Tue, 29 Apr 1997 13:08:06 -0700 (PDT) Received: from jocki.domestic.de (kuebart.stuttgart.netsurf.de [194.233.216.182]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id NAA06567; Tue, 29 Apr 1997 13:07:51 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from joki@localhost) by jocki.domestic.de (8.8.5/8.8.5) id WAA01141; Tue, 29 Apr 1997 22:07:45 +0200 (MET DST) Message-ID: X-Mailer: XFMail 1.0 [p0] on FreeBSD Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: Date: Tue, 29 Apr 1997 21:50:26 +0200 (MET DST) From: Joachim Kuebart To: "Brian N. Handy" Subject: RE: Confused over new rc.* changes Cc: Jordan Hubbard , hackers@freebsd.org Sender: owner-hackers@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk 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 Joachim Kuebart Tel: +49 711 653706 Germany