Subject: Re: OT: some location issues
To: Mauricio Tavares <Mauricio@proedint.com>
From: Simon Burge <simonb@netbsd.org>
List: port-pmax
Date: 11/23/1999 11:44:50
Mauricio Tavares wrote:

> 	The installations instructions for stuff like apache and netatalk says
> they are supposed to be called from /etc/rc.  Why not call them from
> /etc/rc.local?  To me, the later would make more sense since they are
> machine-specific daemons/services as opposite to something that came with
> netbsd from the box.  That said could it be that they want themt o start on
> /etc/rc so to give them more time to initialize?

In general, /etc/rc.local is for site modifications.  However, generic
installation instructions can't assume that every version of Unix has an
/etc/rc.local (indeed, SysV based systems don't even have an /etc/rc,
but that's a whole 'nother story altogether!).

If you're building out of the NetBSD package system, some packages have
a MESSAGE file that says to modify /etc/rc.local.  If this isn't the
case for apache or netatalk then maybe you send send-pr these...

Simon.