From owner-cvs-etc Sat Oct 19 14:30:59 1996 Return-Path: owner-cvs-etc Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id OAA07896 for cvs-etc-outgoing; Sat, 19 Oct 1996 14:30:59 -0700 (PDT) Received: from Kitten.mcs.com (Kitten.mcs.com [192.160.127.90]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id OAA07882; Sat, 19 Oct 1996 14:30:54 -0700 (PDT) Received: from venus.mcs.com (root@Venus.mcs.com [192.160.127.92]) by Kitten.mcs.com (8.8.0/8.8.Beta.3) with SMTP id QAA08017; Sat, 19 Oct 1996 16:30:50 -0500 (CDT) Received: by venus.mcs.com (/\==/\ Smail3.1.28.1 #28.13) id ; Sat, 19 Oct 96 16:30 CDT Date: Sat, 19 Oct 1996 16:30:49 -0500 (CDT) From: Alex Nash X-Sender: nash@Venus.mcs.com To: "Jordan K. Hubbard" cc: Alex Nash , CVS-committers@freefall.freebsd.org, cvs-all@freefall.freebsd.org, cvs-etc@freefall.freebsd.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/etc daily In-Reply-To: <7703.845759697@time.cdrom.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-cvs-etc@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Sat, 19 Oct 1996, Jordan K. Hubbard wrote: > I thought /etc/daily was, by definition, local? [...] > > Modified: etc daily > > Log: > > If /etc/daily.local is present, run it just before the security check. > > Closes PR#1822. As pointed out in the PR, this is symmetrical with /etc/rc (which looks for the presence of rc.local). Additionally, I think it's a convenience for the end user considering that /etc/daily is a moving target (6 changes since the beginning of the year). Alex