From owner-cvs-all Fri Dec 11 22:41:13 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id WAA23124 for cvs-all-outgoing; Fri, 11 Dec 1998 22:41:13 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from coleridge.kublai.com (coleridge.kublai.com [207.96.1.116]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id WAA23117 for ; Fri, 11 Dec 1998 22:41:09 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from shmit@coleridge.kublai.com) Received: (from shmit@localhost) by coleridge.kublai.com (8.9.1/8.9.1) id BAA10760; Sat, 12 Dec 1998 01:40:44 -0500 (EST) Message-ID: <19981212014043.N29799@kublai.com> Date: Sat, 12 Dec 1998 01:40:43 -0500 From: Brian Cully To: dima@best.net Cc: dillon@apollo.backplane.com, jkh@zippy.cdrom.com, des@flood.ping.uio.no, committers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: /etc/rc.local Reply-To: shmit@kublai.com References: <19981212001742.L29799@kublai.com> <199812120631.WAA76971@burka.rdy.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.93.2i In-Reply-To: <199812120631.WAA76971@burka.rdy.com>; from Dima Ruban on Fri, Dec 11, 1998 at 10:31:23PM -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 10:31:23PM -0800, Dima Ruban wrote: > I've meant that rc.local from the distribution is practially empty. > There's no point updating it with sysinstall. I agree. > All it does - it reads rc.conf variables (if you allow it) and > either based on that (or not) executes some stuff. > I find it kinda convenient in it's _current_ mode. I think it would be nice if all the FreeBSD stuff in rc.local moved to rc, and rc.local itself was moved to the Attic. Isn't that how this thread started? -bjc To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message