On Thu, 27 Dec 2001, Andrew Brown wrote:

> >We've been through all this before, as a search over the tech-pkg
> >archives would show. The only new thing here, is my idea to permit
> >changing the path in "/etc/rc.conf". What's wrong with that?
>
> not much, except you don't need it.  for the past 18 months you could
> have used /etc/rc.conf.d for that.

No you couldn't. The question is, whether the syntax of "rc.conf"
should be extended to permit changing the path *to* *the*
*executable*, in order to make custom rc.d scripts unnecessary.

Frederick