[Fwd: Recent changes to rc.d on -CURRENT]

[Mike Makonnen]

On Tue, Jul 27, 2004 at 09:35:33AM -0500, Scot Hetzel wrote:
> On Tue, 27 Jul 2004 13:21:30 +0400, Andrey Chernov <ache at nagual.pp.ru> wrote:
> > On Tue, Jul 27, 2004 at 09:44:39AM +0300, Mike Makonnen wrote:
> > >
> > > The rc.d mechanism with respect to sourcing scripts works like this:
> > >       o scripts ending in '.sh' are sourced in the current subshell
> > >       o all other scripts are sourced in a subshell.
> > 
> > It is unnecessary complication (innovation). Everybody before localpkg
> > using knows he can rename his script to anything excepting ending with
> > ..sh. Say, script.sh.old. Now it is executed. Sigh.
> > 
> Only if the script hasn't been converted to rcNG.  As rcNG scripts
> require the setting of the <name>_enable="YES" variable in
> /etc/rc.conf, /etc/rc.conf.local, or /etc/rc.conf.d/<name>, before
> they will do any actions.

Yes, that is the way it should be. Non rc.d style scripts *must* have a
'.sh' extension. That doesn't change.

Before anyone mentions it, the
committed version doesn't do that, which is a bug. I'll fix it :-)

Cheers.
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