Subject: Re: `rc.local.conf': bad name
To: Todd Vierling <tv@wasabisystems.com>
From: Manuel Bouyer <bouyer@antioche.lip6.fr>
List: tech-userlevel
Date: 08/01/2000 21:36:09
On Tue, Aug 01, 2000 at 09:16:34AM -0400, Todd Vierling wrote:
> On Mon, 31 Jul 2000, Todd Vierling wrote:
>
> : There's a Bunch of files in /etc that use the suffix .local to indicate that
> : this is an "addendum to" or "local override for" the basename file. This
> : would indicate, to me, that I should find site/machine specific addendums to
> : rc.conf [the config file] in rc.conf.local, and that `rc.local.conf' is a
> : config file for its basename, `rc.local'.
>
> I haven't heard any compelling arguments in favor of `rc.local.conf', so if
> I hear nothing by Friday ~7PM EDT, I'll change -current to flip this name to
> `rc.conf.local' and request a 1.5 pullup.
I though this had already been discussed when this file was introduced ?
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Manuel Bouyer <bouyer@antioche.eu.org>
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