From owner-freebsd-hackers Thu Jun 5 22:51:27 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id WAA29701 for hackers-outgoing; Thu, 5 Jun 1997 22:51:27 -0700 (PDT) Received: from genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au (genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au [129.127.96.120]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id WAA29690 for ; Thu, 5 Jun 1997 22:51:08 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from msmith@localhost) by genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au (8.8.5/8.7.3) id PAA01623; Fri, 6 Jun 1997 15:20:49 +0930 (CST) From: Michael Smith Message-Id: <199706060550.PAA01623@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au> Subject: Re: Any objection to the following? In-Reply-To: <18901.865575515@time.cdrom.com> from "Jordan K. Hubbard" at "Jun 5, 97 10:38:35 pm" To: jkh@time.cdrom.com (Jordan K. Hubbard) Date: Fri, 6 Jun 1997 15:20:49 +0930 (CST) Cc: msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL28 (25)] 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 Jordan K. Hubbard stands accused of saying: > > Hmm. Any reason it can't just be a list in rc.conf? The basic idea > > is OK, althought you might want to consider /usr/local/etc/ld.so.conf > > as well for use/manipulation by ports... > > Well, if I went that route then it also wouldn't really be correct > unless done in fashion of the local_startup list, and I'm not sure I'm > willing to go quite that far yet. :-) Ok, how about something like a "local_etc" searchpath, containing directories which might contain etc-like files? I'm just thinking of this as a poor cousin to some of the other solutions for a read-only /etc. > Jordan -- ]] Mike Smith, Software Engineer msmith@gsoft.com.au [[ ]] Genesis Software genesis@gsoft.com.au [[ ]] High-speed data acquisition and (GSM mobile) 0411-222-496 [[ ]] realtime instrument control. (ph) +61-8-8267-3493 [[ ]] Unix hardware collector. "Where are your PEZ?" The Tick [[