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Subject: Re: /usr/src/etc/Makefile install rule. 
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Date: Thu, 01 May 1997 21:40:22 +1000
From: David Nugent <davidn@labs.usn.blaze.net.au>
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>  Would anyone have any objections if this suddenly went from
>  being a no-op to installing:
>  
>  	rc
>  	rc.firewall
>  	rc.network
>  	rc.serial
>  	rc.pccard
>  	etc.i386/rc.i386
>  
>  Into /etc?

No major objection, but did you resolve the "undefined variable"
problem where something not configured in /etc/rc.conf (sysconfig)
would cause problems? IIRC that's what motivated this move, and
I honestly wouldn't like to see any automated install unless and
until that was refined.

>  For rc.conf, we might also emit a little message at install time which
>  reminds those looking through the output to migrate their old rc.conf
>  by hand.  rc.local is just a skeleton and should never need updating -
>  it's purely a user configuration choice.

Yep, that's ok. Even better would be some coding in /etc/rc and friends
which warned that a specific variable is not defined. And log it, if
syslog happens to be running and partitions have been mounted. A simple
shell function could be passed a variable name to do the test and logging.

 
Regards,
David