Date: Fri, 11 Dec 1998 21:32:17 -0500 From: Brian Cully <shmit@kublai.com> To: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@zippy.cdrom.com>, Dag-Erling Smorgrav <des@flood.ping.uio.no> Cc: committers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: /etc/rc.local Message-ID: <19981211213217.K26279@kublai.com> In-Reply-To: <7612.913428670@zippy.cdrom.com>; from Jordan K. Hubbard on Fri, Dec 11, 1998 at 06:11:10PM -0800 References: <xzp1zm6tme7.fsf@flood.ping.uio.no> <7612.913428670@zippy.cdrom.com>
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On Fri, Dec 11, 1998 at 06:11:10PM -0800, Jordan K. Hubbard wrote:
> > I find it illogical that this file contains actual code, whereas all
> > other *local files are optional local additions. Would it not make
> > sense to move the code in rc.local (which updates /etc/motd) to rc,
>
> Think history.
NetBSD made this change well over a year ago, and at the time, I
couldn't stop thanking them. I don't think historical reasons are good
enough in this instance. Having rc.local get clobbered by FreeBSD is
pretty bad.
Yes, I realise that there are a bunch of other files in /etc which get
clobbered, but shouldn't we try and lower the number of files that we
have to remember to change post-install?
--
Brian Cully <shmit@rcn.com>
Macintosh -- we might not get everything right, but at least we
knew the century was going to end.
-- Douglas Adams, on the Y2K problem.
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