From owner-freebsd-hackers  Fri Jul 11 14:10:50 1997
Return-Path: <owner-hackers>
Received: (from root@localhost)
          by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id OAA03578
          for hackers-outgoing; Fri, 11 Jul 1997 14:10:50 -0700 (PDT)
Received: from phaeton.artisoft.com (phaeton.Artisoft.COM [198.17.250.50])
          by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id OAA03567
          for <freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG>; Fri, 11 Jul 1997 14:10:43 -0700 (PDT)
Received: (from terry@localhost) by phaeton.artisoft.com (8.6.11/8.6.9) id OAA25677; Fri, 11 Jul 1997 14:01:20 -0700
From: Terry Lambert <terry@lambert.org>
Message-Id: <199707112101.OAA25677@phaeton.artisoft.com>
Subject: Re: /etc/init.d/
To: lederer@bonn-online.com (Sebastian Lederer)
Date: Fri, 11 Jul 1997 14:01:20 -0700 (MST)
Cc: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG,
        vadim@tversu.ac.ru
In-Reply-To: <33C5EFC1.41C67EA6@bonn-online.com> from "Sebastian Lederer" at Jul 11, 97 10:33:05 am
X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24]
MIME-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
Sender: owner-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG
X-Loop: FreeBSD.org
Precedence: bulk

> Moving the rc.d directory to /etc would avoid this problem,
> since /etc is (usually) private to a single machine.

Not in most of our ideal universes, it's not: / is mounted as
read-only via NFS, and /dev is mounted from devfs and reflects
the devices which probed true for the particular machine.


					Terry Lambert
					terry@lambert.org
---
Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present
or previous employers.