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To: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG
From: Tony Finch <dot@dotat.at>
Subject: Re: /etc/rc.d, and changes to /etc/rc?
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Nik Clayton <nik@nothing-going-on.demon.co.uk> wrote:
>
>basename=`basename $0`
>
># Allow ourself to be overridden by local changes
>if [ -x /usr/local/etc/rc.d/${basename} ]; then
>	exec /usr/local/etc/rc.d/${basename}
>fi
>
># If there is a global configuration file, suck it in
>if [ -r /etc/rc.conf ]; then
>	. /etc/rc.conf
>fi
>
># Check for first parameter
>if [ $1x = x ]; then
>	echo ${basename}: No argument provided
>	exit 1
>fi

I like your idea because I find sysV's /etc/init.d convenient. One
suggestion: could you put the above boilerplate into a file that gets
sourced by all the /etc/rc.d scripts (in case you want to make a
global change to it)? And I dislike calling the scripts
/etc/rc.d/foo.sh because (IMO) the .sh is redundant and potentially
misleading if (e.g.) the sysadmin decides to rewrite them in Perl.

Tony.
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