On 11 Mar 2000, Nathan J. Williams wrote:

> <aidan@kublai.com> (Aidan Cully) writes:
> 
> > I hope this isn't too controversial...  We've got rc.local.conf,
> > monthly.local, &c., why not rc.d.local?
> 
> What's wrong with just putting local files in /etc/rc.d itself? While
> the system-supplied files in /etc/rc.d might reasonably considered
> system-owned code rather than user-tweakable configuration, the
> contents of /etc/rc.d are fully adjustable by the sysadmin.
> 

i quite like to seperate what is mine, and what is the systems. What if,
say ssh (openssh) became intergrated with the core system, and was added
to /etc/rc.d. Yes make build will not override it, but i think the point
is that things under /etc/rc.d i would know had been configured pretty
well by the system (may need tweeking but...) while everything under
/etc/rc.d.local/ was under my control. So i dont come back in 6 months
after the system has been upgraded and wounder just which files were under
my control again...

- Scott

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