From owner-freebsd-hackers Thu May 1 04:57:09 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id EAA19320 for hackers-outgoing; Thu, 1 May 1997 04:57:09 -0700 (PDT) Received: from nlsystems.com (nlsys.demon.co.uk [158.152.125.33]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id EAA19315 for ; Thu, 1 May 1997 04:57:05 -0700 (PDT) Received: from herring.nlsystems.com (herring.nlsystems.com [10.0.0.2]) by nlsystems.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id MAA00740; Thu, 1 May 1997 12:56:22 +0100 (BST) Date: Thu, 1 May 1997 12:56:22 +0100 (BST) From: Doug Rabson To: "Jordan K. Hubbard" cc: hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: /usr/src/etc/Makefile install rule. In-Reply-To: <18731.862467696@time.cdrom.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-hackers@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk 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