On Wed, 26 Dec 2001, Greywolf wrote:

> The files in /etc/rc.d are supposed to be sacrosanct and tunable by
> rc.conf.  One should NOT have to mangle ANYTHING inside an /etc/rc.d/*
> file.  If this is not the case, then we need to make it so.

In that case, I would like it if "/etc/rc.conf" let you set the path
to the executable, like so

ntpd=YES	ntpd_path="/usr/local/bin/ntpd" ntpd_flags=""

That would actually go a long way toward solving the question of what
to do with pkgsrc rc.d scripts. (They shouldn't be any different than
the current base scripts. If pkgsrc does need to add a shell function,
you make it conditional on the version as reported by the utility.)

That said, I withdraw my objection to thorpej's original proposal.

Frederick