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From: Kevin Day <toasty@dragondata.com>
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Subject: Re: How bullet-proof should the /etc/rc* scripts be?
To: Doug@gorean.org (Doug)
Date: Thu, 26 Aug 1999 23:23:05 -0500 (CDT)
Cc: sjr@home.net (Stephen J. Roznowski), freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG
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> > 4. What is the point of the "stty status '^T' at the top of the rc file?
> 
> 	Frankly, that one stumps me too. :) There are still plenty of "We've
> always done it that way" items in the various rc files, that may be one of
> them. 
> 

Without this, you cannot press ^T to see why the rc script has hung, if it
does free during bootup.

Kevin


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