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Subject: Re: /etc/rc.local
In-Reply-To: <199812120400.UAA42050@apollo.backplane.com> from Matthew Dillon at "Dec 11, 1998  8: 0: 2 pm"
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Matthew Dillon writes:
>     It sounds to me that it wouldn't be too hard to move rc.local's minimal
>     'default' functionality (the handling of /etc/motd) to /etc/rc and adding
>     an rc.conf variable to enable it or disable it, defaulted to on.

Yes, it wouldn't be hard to do it, but I don't exactly see a point
doing it. rc.local is empty and usually it stays empty (or almost empty).
I'd say - leave as it is now.

> 
>     That would leave rc.local empty and untouched.  As it probably should be.
> 
>     The worse that would happen is that /etc/motd would be regenerated twice
>     during boot.  Not a big deal, I think.
> 
> 					-Matt
> 
> 
>     Matthew Dillon  Engineering, HiWay Technologies, Inc. & BEST Internet 
>                     Communications & God knows what else.
>     <dillon@backplane.com> (Please include original email in any response)    
> 

-- dima

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