Date: Sat, 12 Dec 1998 00:45:10 -0800 (PST) From: Matthew Dillon <dillon@apollo.backplane.com> To: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@zippy.cdrom.com> Cc: shmit@kublai.com, dima@best.net, des@flood.ping.uio.no, committers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: /etc/rc.local Message-ID: <199812120845.AAA42707@apollo.backplane.com> References: <23818.913445705@zippy.cdrom.com>
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:> rc.local. What if I want to run MySQL, or Apache, or ftpd in stand
:> alone mode, or any of the millions of other things that people can
:> do in rc.local?
:
:The answer is that such things no longer belong in rc.local; we've
:already transitioned away from this (long ago) in favor of the rc.d/
:...
:
:- Jordan
I still use rc.local. In fact, BEST still uses rc.local (albeit as a
jumping board to something slightly more sophisticated). I know several
people who still use rc.local.
The key issue is that things such as ports (sshd, for example), use the
rc.d mechanism and *should* use the rc.d mechanism, but sysops use whatever
is most convenient for the job. For myself, rc.conf[.local] covers
customization well enough that what little remains can be stuck into
rc.local easily and thus all be in one place rather then intermixed
with the other things in rc.d. For BEST, the machine configuration
mechanism needs to make distinctions between different classes of
machines - something not all that easy to manage with rc.d but trivial
to manage by softlinking rc.local.
And, I think, the original author has a point on the naming conventions...
rc.local should be, well, local. I'd definitely move the motd junk to
/etc/rc, remove references to rc.local by install scripts, and move it
out of the source tree and into the attic.
Of course, us fixing rc.local will have no operational effect on anything
I do, BEST does, my friends do, or virtually anyone other current user.
Fixing rc.local would simply be cleanup for future newbie sysops. Still,
it *is* cleanup and that is always beneficial.
-Matt
Matthew Dillon Engineering, HiWay Technologies, Inc. & BEST Internet
Communications & God knows what else.
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