Subject: Re: rc, rc.shutdown proposed change
To: Frank van der Linden <frank@wins.uva.nl>
From: David Brownlee <abs@netbsd.org>
List: tech-userlevel
Date: 03/12/2000 22:44:43
On Sun, 12 Mar 2000, Frank van der Linden wrote:

> That sounds like a good idea at first glance, but imagine a situation where
> you want to stop/start/restart a subsystem. Now you'll have to first
> remember if it's a system-delivered system, or a package, or a "local"
> one, because you need to grab it from either /etc/rc.d, /etc/rc.pkg.d
> or /etc/rc.local.d. And you don't want those in your $PATH either.
> 
> That's not a good thing. Though it may seem less elegant at first, putting
> them all into /etc/rc.d is the best idea.
> 
> Or: you can create /etc/rc.local.d and /etc/rc.pkg.d and symlink them
> from /etc/rc.d. In that case you can still easily see which ones
> are "yours".

	Recommend '/etc/rc.d/<pkg>.local' ? :)

		David/absolute