There have been no replys since Erik's message below.  Are people happy
for me to commit something like this.  I'm tempted to leave out the last
'echo "See http://...' - maybe even something along the lines of:

	echo "Multiuser boot aborted."
	echo ""
	echo "/etc/rc.conf and /etc/rc.conf.local are not configured."
	echo "Create or edit /etc/rc.conf.local, including setting:"
	echo "    rc_configured=YES"

Simon.
--
Erik Bertelsen wrote:

> On Tue, Oct 05, 1999 at 16:59:22 +1000, matthew green wrote:
> > 
> >    > One of the little pains of an upgrade is rebuilding /etc/rc.conf.
> >    > What if we moved the clean /etc/rc.conf to /etc/rc.defaults and
> >    > started with an empty /etc/rc.conf that users could override
> >    > /etc/rc.defaults settings?
> >    
> >    I make one change to rc.conf, that being to add ". /etc/rc.conf.local"
> >    to the end of it.  All my configuration then goes in rc.conf.local.
> >    
> >    I'm not especially attached to the names.  But something like this is a
> >    very good idea, it seems to me.
> 
> My preference is to
> 
>  cvs diff -c rc
> Index: rc
> ===================================================================
> RCS file: /sw/cvs-base/src/etc/rc,v
> retrieving revision 1.1.1.61
> diff -c -r1.1.1.61 rc
> *** rc  1999/09/29 14:56:40     1.1.1.61
> --- rc  1999/10/05 08:50:26
> ***************
> *** 85,90 ****
> --- 85,94 ----
>         . /etc/rc.conf
>   fi
>   
> + if [ -f /etc/rc.conf.local ]; then
> +       . /etc/rc.conf.local
> + fi
> + 
>   if [ "$rc_configured" != YES ]; then
>         echo "/etc/rc.conf is not configured. Multiuser boot aborted."
>         exit 1
> 
> (and similar for netstart and rc.shutdown). The inclusion of rc.conf.local
> could be done in rc.conf itself, but as it really only contain assignment
> statements, I don't like putting "executable" statements into it.
> 
> rc.conf.local should -not- be in the distribution, but examples could be
> in /usr/share/examples/rc (or whatever).
> 
> We can also consider adding text along the lines of
> 
> cvs diff -c rc
> Index: rc
> ===================================================================
> RCS file: /sw/cvs-base/src/etc/rc,v
> retrieving revision 1.1.1.61
> diff -c -r1.1.1.61 rc
> *** rc  1999/09/29 14:56:40     1.1.1.61
> --- rc  1999/10/05 08:56:18
> ***************
> *** 87,92 ****
> --- 87,96 ----
>   
>   if [ "$rc_configured" != YES ]; then
>         echo "/etc/rc.conf is not configured. Multiuser boot aborted."
> +       echo "Please add your local rc.conf entries to /etc/rc.conf.local,"
> +       echo "including setting rc_configured=YES."
> +       echo "Create the file if not already existent."
> +       echo "See http://www.netbsd.org/whatever and/or the installation documentation for further details."
>         exit 1
>   fi
>   
> 
> 
> (Please improve the linguistic and explanative quality of the English).
> 
> regards
> Erik Bertelsen
> 
> ps: I also have a PR about using checkyesno instead of comparing with YES, but that
> is another story...
>