svn commit: r349256 - head/libexec/rc/rc.d

[Don Lewis]

On 21 Jun, Xin LI wrote:

> But ultimately, I think the real design question here that needs to be
> solved would probably be "Why are piling up multiple layers of workarounds
> around motd? Does it even need to be located in /etc?"  The contents is
> meant to be updated every time when there is a kernel change, and to that
> extent it seems to be more appropriate for /var/run and generated at boot
> from a template located somewhere in /etc.  The benefit of this approach is
> that you would have one less file to merge for each etcupdate/mergemaster
> (or at least only need to do it when some customization is made), and there
> is no need to worry about write durability.

+1

This is something that has bothered me for a long time.  It should be
possible to run with a read-only /etc (obviously with some functional
limitations).