svn commit: r230007 - in head: etc etc/rc.d share/man/man8

[Eygene Ryabinkin]

Thu, Jan 19, 2012 at 11:27:59AM -0600, Brooks Davis wrote:
> On Fri, Jan 13, 2012 at 11:21:48AM +0400, Eygene Ryabinkin wrote:
> > The related topic: in the process of grepping for dhclient within
> > /etc, I had found that /etc/netstart still wants to invoke it.  But it
> > will do a lone '/etc/rc.d/dhclient quietstart' and this will never
> > be useful in the current state of dhclient: it will refuse to process
> > any commands without the interface being specified.  And since we
> > have the invocation of /etc/rc.d/netif just two lines above, I think
> > that it will be good to remove call to dhclient from /etc/netstart.
[...]
> 
> Removing it from /etc/netstart is the right thing to do.

Will do it today.

> Arguably it should be moved to /libexec since it's not an rc.d
> script and simply uses the framework because it had similar needs

Well, I fear that some user scripts may rely on the dhclient path
to be /etc/rc.d/dhclient, so such a change could lead to the POLA
violation.  So, all pros and cons of such a change should be carefully
weighted.  What is the gain from moving it to /libexec apart from
avoiding pollution of /etc/rc.d by non-rc.d scripts?  It is a good
thing to have for the clear design, but having dhclient in /etc/rc.d
has no effect on the boot process, since it is marked 'nostart' and
it allows people to use 'service dhclient restart $if' without hacking
the service to still allow to use this command.  We can, of course,
move it to /libexec/rc.d/ and add this path to the local_startup, but
I doubt that this approach will give any real gain, though I can be
missing some important points.
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