proposal: etc/rc.d/initdiskless -> /etc/rc.initdiskless

[Brooks Davis]

I would like to propose that we move the initdiskless script out of rc.d
and back into /etc.  The reason for doing this is that initdiskless is
really about bootstrapping /etc from a minimial configuration.  Thus
running it via rcorder is really running it too early.  By moving it to
/etc and running it directly from /etc/rc (possiably conditionally based
on the existance of /conf) we fix this issue.  The main benefit of this
is that /etc/rc.d can now be modified or created entierly from entries
under /conf which could make it easier to maintain extra scripts in the
main flow of rc.d.

The change to /etc/rc would look something like:

diff -u -p -r1.335 rc
--- rc  8 Oct 2004 14:23:49 -0000       1.335
+++ rc  24 Feb 2005 21:02:18 -0000
@@ -50,6 +50,10 @@ HOME=/
 PATH=/sbin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin
 export HOME PATH
 
+if [ -d /conf ]; then
+	/etc/rc.initdiskless
+fi
+
 . /etc/rc.subr
 
 # Note: the system configuration files are loaded as part of


Does anyone have major objections to this change?  The goal is to run
initdiskless as early as possible so /etc can be as minimal as possible
at that point.

-- Brooks

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