From owner-cvs-all Fri Dec 11 18:32:30 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id SAA02393 for cvs-all-outgoing; Fri, 11 Dec 1998 18:32:30 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from smtp1.erols.com (smtp1.erols.com [207.172.3.234]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id SAA02388 for ; Fri, 11 Dec 1998 18:32:27 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from shmit@natasya.noc.erols.net) Received: from natasya.noc.erols.net (natasya.noc.erols.net [207.172.25.236]) by smtp1.erols.com (8.8.8/8.8.5) with ESMTP id VAA07079; Fri, 11 Dec 1998 21:32:18 -0500 (EST) Received: (from shmit@localhost) by natasya.noc.erols.net (8.9.1/8.9.1) id VAA20685; Fri, 11 Dec 1998 21:32:17 -0500 (EST) Message-ID: <19981211213217.K26279@kublai.com> Date: Fri, 11 Dec 1998 21:32:17 -0500 From: Brian Cully To: "Jordan K. Hubbard" , Dag-Erling Smorgrav Cc: committers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: /etc/rc.local Reply-To: shmit@kublai.com References: <7612.913428670@zippy.cdrom.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.93.2i In-Reply-To: <7612.913428670@zippy.cdrom.com>; from Jordan K. Hubbard on Fri, Dec 11, 1998 at 06:11:10PM -0800 X-Sender: If your mailer pays attention to this, it's broken. X-PGP-Info: finger shmit@kublai.com for my public key. Sender: owner-cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk On Fri, Dec 11, 1998 at 06:11:10PM -0800, Jordan K. Hubbard wrote: > > I find it illogical that this file contains actual code, whereas all > > other *local files are optional local additions. Would it not make > > sense to move the code in rc.local (which updates /etc/motd) to rc, > > Think history. NetBSD made this change well over a year ago, and at the time, I couldn't stop thanking them. I don't think historical reasons are good enough in this instance. Having rc.local get clobbered by FreeBSD is pretty bad. Yes, I realise that there are a bunch of other files in /etc which get clobbered, but shouldn't we try and lower the number of files that we have to remember to change post-install? -- Brian Cully Macintosh -- we might not get everything right, but at least we knew the century was going to end. -- Douglas Adams, on the Y2K problem. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message