Subject: Re: more work in rc.d [was Re: rc, rc.shutdown proposed change]
To: None <itojun@iijlab.net>
From: Aidan Cully <aidan@kublai.com>
List: tech-userlevel
Date: 03/12/2000 23:09:05
On Mon, Mar 13, 2000 at 08:33:07AM +0900, itojun@iijlab.net wrote:
>
> > > This is a lose. Once the user installs a package, he shouldn't have
> > > to copy stuff around to make it go. I think this is going to be a serious
> > > negative for our pkg system.
>
> Please don't try to start daemons automatically, some of pkgsrc needs
> careful configuration to be secure/work properly.
Shouldn't happen anyway, the user will need variables in rc.local.conf
to start up anything run from rc.d, I think.
--aidan