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