> 
> 
>    >  Or, as has been suggested previously, it might make a great deal of sense
>    > to convert /etc/daily (and weekly, monthly, and rc) to an init.d-like
>    > scheme.
> 
>    I have a project that is going to require that I implement this.
> 
> Could we *please* make the init.d-like rc stuff run-time-optional as
> was suggested by a few people?  I.e., if /etc/init.d or /etc/rc.d exists
> (I vote for rc.d if anything at all), then run stuff in there.
> 

I second.

In fact, I wouldn't even mind if we went with something like this:

if [ -f rc.d ] ; then
  cd rc.d
  for i in (*)
  do
    $i
  done
fi

Of course, an elegent solution that worked would be OK with me too :-)


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Dave Burgess  (The man of a thousand E-Mail addresses)
386bsd FAQ Maintainer / SysAdmin for the NetBSD system in my spare bedroom
"Just because something is stupid doesn't mean that there isn't someone
that wants to do it...."