Subject: Re: Changing root's shell to /bin/sh
To: John Nemeth <jnemeth@cue.bc.ca>
From: Chris G. Demetriou <cgd@netbsd.org>
List: current-users
Date: 03/18/1999 22:40:22
John Nemeth <jnemeth@cue.bc.ca> writes:
> We could
> easily get this advantage by creating a single /etc/rc.d directory and
> having /etc/rc execute everything in it just before going multiuser
> (controlled by a configuration variable in /etc/rc.conf).

that's only useful if the things which are started by scripts there
all 'should be' run at the same point in the startup (e.g. after the
rest of the stuff in /etc/rc, or whatever).  that's often not the
case.




cgd
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Disclaimer: Not speaking for NetBSD, just expressing my own opinion.