Subject: Re: /etc/rc.d and /etc/rc.conf
To: Frank van der Linden <frank@wins.uva.nl>
From: Greywolf <greywolf@starwolf.com>
List: tech-userlevel
Date: 03/16/2000 13:52:55
On Thu, 16 Mar 2000, Frank van der Linden wrote:

# On Thu, Mar 16, 2000 at 02:35:38AM +0000, Scott Aaron Bamford wrote:
# > 
# > Is there no way these two could co-exist? I'm believeing a
# > process_rc.d=YES like option in rc.conf could swtich on /etc/rc.d
# > processing, while setting it to NO could make the real /etc/rc script
# > process it all (using a simple if checkyesno(process_rc.d) else ... fi
# > mehtod) would please both people.
# 
# There's a problem with that. If you allow an "official" knob to switch
# off rc.d processing to exist, this will make things a bit too unpredictable
# for 3rd party script handling.

It could be well argued that 3rd party scripts should go in /etc/rc.local.d
and not touch the system stuff at all.

				--*greywolf;

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