Subject: Re: rc local [patches]
To: None <tech-userlevel@NetBSD.org>
From: Joerg Sonnenberger <joerg@britannica.bec.de>
List: tech-userlevel
Date: 03/18/2007 17:38:22
On Sun, Mar 18, 2007 at 03:08:14PM +0100, tlaronde@polynum.com wrote:
> 
> 2) All names are built appending ".local" to them, since the emphasis
> must be put not on the nature of a link (a file or a directory '.d') but
> on the fact that these are local versions of standard facilities.
> 	There is also prior art since the script sourced by /etc/rc.d/local
> 	stop is called "/etc/rc.shutdown.local"

[snip]

The one problem which points out why this falls apart is that rcorder
itself doesn't support multiple scripts with the same name very well.
For that reason alone all the complication of separation makes a lot less
sense.

Joerg