Date: Thu, 27 May 2004 09:30:47 -0700 From: "Kevin Oberman" <oberman@es.net> To: Oliver Eikemeier <eikemeier@fillmore-labs.com> Cc: Rob <stopspam@users.sourceforge.net> Subject: Re: Where to put my own startup script (/etc/rc.local ?) Message-ID: <20040527163047.2BB485D09@ptavv.es.net> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Thu, 27 May 2004 08:24:30 %2B0200." <40B5899E.7030506@fillmore-labs.com>
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> Date: Thu, 27 May 2004 08:24:30 +0200 > From: Oliver Eikemeier <eikemeier@fillmore-labs.com> > Sender: owner-freebsd-current@freebsd.org > > Bruce M Simpson wrote: > > > On Tue, May 25, 2004 at 02:08:12PM -0700, Kevin Oberman wrote: > > > >>You can put them in /usr/local/etc/rc.d or /etc/rc.d. The former is the > >>more acceptable and should be used if the startup can be run at the end > >>of the startup. > > > > Take a look at the net-mgmt/snmptt port I just committed. This borrows from > > the net/quagga port in the area of rc script placement - showing how to > > place it in an appropriate location depending on OSVERSION. > > While putting *local* (e.g. not belonging to a port) scripts into rc.local is > reasonable on -STABLE and -CURRENT, ports should *not* put scripts in > /etc/rc.d. I did this once in an attempt to have OpenLDAP start early, hoping > for this issue to be resolved fast with PR 56736, but I seems there is no > progress on this one. Sigh. Anyway, although I believe it is legal for a > user to put his own scripts into /etc/rc.d, mergemaster(8) will complain when > it finds them, see PR 64476. Aside from a CUSTOM_RC_FILES variable, I REALLY thing the default on this is backwards. The default should always be to fail-safe. If the default is to delete a file, that is NOT safe. -- R. Kevin Oberman, Network Engineer Energy Sciences Network (ESnet) Ernest O. Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) E-mail: oberman@es.net Phone: +1 510 486-8634
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