Subject: Re: rc.d
To: Bill Sommerfeld <sommerfeld@orchard.arlington.ma.us>
From: Charles M. Hannum <root@ihack.net>
List: tech-userlevel
Date: 03/17/2000 11:52:42
> The primary advantage of an rc.d-style system is that it enables
> fail-safe addition and deletion of daemons and other boot-time
> activities as part of packages.
>
> Some of the more vocal opponents of rc.d seem to prefer that we
> continue to require that people hack their /etc/rc.local file by hand
> whenever they want to add services.

Perhaps you should try actually reading what the `opponents' have
written?

The problem with the current bogus hack is that it DOES NOT do what
you say.  It's still necessary to edit rc.conf to make daemons
actually run.

If we had at least done the /etc/config/ thing, as was suggested...