Subject: Re: rc, rc.shutdown proposed change
To: Nathan J. Williams <nathanw@MIT.EDU>
From: Jaromir Dolecek <dolecek@ics.muni.cz>
List: tech-userlevel
Date: 03/13/2000 11:03:58
Nathan J. Williams wrote:
> The people who suggested /etc/rc.local.d and /etc/rc.pkg.d are trying
> to solve this namespace problem by creating two new namespaces. I
> would prefer to solve it by separating out the namespace within
> /etc/rc.d.
>
> Declaring '.' or '-' as a separator, and then having
> "/etc/rc.d/foo.pkg" or "/etc/rc.d/bar.local" seems reasonable.
Hmm, this seems to be better than the /etc/rc.{local|pkg}.d :)
One more possible solution (I'm not sure if mentioned before)
is adding /etc/rc.d/{local|pkg} and putting the respective startup
scripts there.
Jaromir
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