Date: Tue, 25 Jul 1995 10:19:38 -0400 From: Garrett Wollman <wollman@halloran-eldar.lcs.mit.edu> To: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@time.cdrom.com> Cc: "Rodney W. Grimes" <rgrimes@gndrsh.aac.dev.com>, current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Knobs in /etc/sysconfig Message-ID: <9507251419.AA06573@halloran-eldar.lcs.mit.edu> In-Reply-To: <3089.806642464@time.cdrom.com> References: <199507250250.TAA20607@gndrsh.aac.dev.com> <3089.806642464@time.cdrom.com>
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<<On Mon, 24 Jul 1995 20:21:04 -0700, "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@time.cdrom.com> said:
> # Fill in the types of local startup scripts you have
> LOCAL_SCRIPTS= network i386
> if [ -d /etc/rc.locald ]; then \
> for i in ${LOCAL_SCRIPTS}; do \
> if [ -f /etc/rc.locald/$$i ]; then \
> sh /etc/rc.locald/$$i; \
> fi \
> done \
> fi
If you're going to go this far in the SysV direction (and in this one
particular case it's not unreasonable), I would far rather have
something like:
if [ -d /etc/rc.local.d ]; then
for script in /etc/rc.local.d/*.sh; do
[ -x $script ] && $script start
done
fi
if [ -x /etc/rc.local ]; then
/etc/rc.local
fi
The first part is almost like what SysV implementations do, only it's
Emacs-safe. (Obviously, I would expect the scripts to understand
`restart' and `stop' as well as `start'.) I put in the `test -x' part
to make it trivial to turn these things on and off as necessary.
> I rather like the /etc/sysconfig.local idea, but I'd still prefer to
> couple it with something like the above rather than tossing all the
> knob-ends into /etc/rc.local. Sticking them into a subdir means less
> things we'll have to contend with overlaying when upgrading.
I don't like the idea of /etc/sysconfig.local as a dumping-ground for
third-party software configuration options. Either there should be a
third-party section in the real /etc/sysconfig, or there should be a
separate config file for each service (/etc/rc.local.d/$service.cf?).
I lean towards the former.
-GAWollman
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