From owner-cvs-all Sat Dec 12 08:14:42 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id IAA06435 for cvs-all-outgoing; Sat, 12 Dec 1998 08:14:42 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from flood.ping.uio.no (flood.ping.uio.no [129.240.78.31]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id IAA06427 for ; Sat, 12 Dec 1998 08:14:40 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from des@flood.ping.uio.no) Received: (from des@localhost) by flood.ping.uio.no (8.9.1/8.9.1) id RAA42674; Sat, 12 Dec 1998 17:14:29 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from des) To: Benjamin Greenwald Cc: Dag-Erling Smorgrav , Matthew Dillon , "Jordan K. Hubbard" , shmit@kublai.com, dima@best.net, committers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: /etc/rc.local References: <199812121610.LAA03344@miris.lcs.mit.edu> From: Dag-Erling Smorgrav Date: 12 Dec 1998 17:14:28 +0100 In-Reply-To: Benjamin Greenwald's message of "Sat, 12 Dec 1998 11:10:45 -0500" Message-ID: Lines: 16 X-Mailer: Gnus v5.5/Emacs 19.34 Sender: owner-cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk Benjamin Greenwald writes: > > Matthew Dillon writes: > > > 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 > The problem with moving the "motd junk" to /etc/rc is that the motd should be > a local entity. Otherwise it defeats the entire purpose of the Message Of The > Day, turning what was intended to be a default into a standard. This change > will force anyone who actually DOES change their motd from the default into > putting local changes in /etc/rc. No. Please read the code in /etc/rc.local before commenting. DES -- Dag-Erling Smorgrav - des@flood.ping.uio.no To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message