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Date:      Thu, 1 May 1997 12:56:22 +0100 (BST)
From:      Doug Rabson <dfr@nlsystems.com>
To:        "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@time.cdrom.com>
Cc:        hackers@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: /usr/src/etc/Makefile install rule.
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.3.95q.970501125539.289K-100000@herring.nlsystems.com>
In-Reply-To: <18731.862467696@time.cdrom.com>

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On Wed, 30 Apr 1997, Jordan K. Hubbard wrote:

> 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?
> 
> Only /etc/rc.conf and /etc/rc.local are supposed to be customized, so
> that would make the other rc files "generic" enough to simply install
> (and if one's not, we should fix that rather than not install it).
> 
> 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.
> 
> Comments?

I think rc.firewall gets pretty heavily customised when it is used.  I
know I have made quite a few changes here.

--
Doug Rabson				Mail:  dfr@nlsystems.com
Nonlinear Systems Ltd.			Phone: +44 181 951 1891




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