From owner-cvs-all Sat Dec 12 14:41:46 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id OAA06034 for cvs-all-outgoing; Sat, 12 Dec 1998 14:41:46 -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 OAA06027 for ; Sat, 12 Dec 1998 14:41:42 -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 XAA44062; Sat, 12 Dec 1998 23:41:27 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from des) To: Matthew Dillon Cc: "Jordan K. Hubbard" , shmit@kublai.com, dima@best.net, committers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: proposed diffs for /etc/rc.local (was Re: /etc/rc.local ) References: <24130.913454380@zippy.cdrom.com> <199812121914.LAA46284@apollo.backplane.com> From: Dag-Erling Smorgrav Date: 12 Dec 1998 23:41:26 +0100 In-Reply-To: Matthew Dillon's message of "Sat, 12 Dec 1998 11:14:50 -0800 (PST)" Message-ID: Lines: 18 X-Mailer: Gnus v5.5/Emacs 19.34 Sender: owner-cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk Matthew Dillon writes: > Here's an (untestd) proposal. I changed the ordering slightly, too, > updating motd prior to running /etc/rc.devfs to keep things neat. rc.local > now contains nothing substantial beyond comments. I recommend keeping > the rc.local in the CVS tree but not installing it in /etc if /etc > already has one. We don't have a nearly-empty rc.conf.local in the tree. There's no reason why we should have a nearly-empty rc.local there either. It's just an open invitation for committers to (wrongly) add code to it. Document it in rc(8), but leave it out of the tree. OBTW, rc.conf.local should be documented in rc.conf(5) instead of / in addition to rc(8). 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