From root@odie.hrz.uni-bielefeld.de Fri Oct 20 07:55:36 2000 Return-Path: Received: from odie.hrz.uni-bielefeld.de (odie.hrz.uni-bielefeld.de [129.70.5.87]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B8D3837B479 for ; Fri, 20 Oct 2000 07:55:35 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from root@localhost) by odie.hrz.uni-bielefeld.de (8.9.3/8.9.3) id JAA00717; Fri, 20 Oct 2000 09:18:20 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from root) Message-Id: <200010200718.JAA00717@odie.hrz.uni-bielefeld.de> Date: Fri, 20 Oct 2000 09:18:20 +0200 (CEST) From: lars.koeller@uni-bielefeld.de Sender: root@odie.hrz.uni-bielefeld.de Reply-To: lars.koeller@uni-bielefeld.de To: FreeBSD-gnats-submit@freebsd.org Subject: source mechanism of /etc/rc.conf* files X-Send-Pr-Version: 3.2 >Number: 22151 >Category: conf >Synopsis: source mechanism of /etc/rc.conf* files >Confidential: no >Severity: serious >Priority: medium >Responsible: dougb >State: closed >Quarter: >Keywords: >Date-Required: >Class: change-request >Submitter-Id: current-users >Arrival-Date: Fri Oct 20 08:00:00 PDT 2000 >Closed-Date: Sat Feb 3 21:52:26 PST 2001 >Last-Modified: Sat Feb 03 21:58:17 PST 2001 >Originator: Charlie & >Release: FreeBSD 4.1.1-STABLE i386 >Organization: Computing Center, University of Bielefeld, Germany >Environment: FreeBSD 4.1.1-STABLE i386 >Description: Change of source of /etc/rc.conf /etc/rc.conf.local. The new mechnism breaks a lot of scripts, which based on the very usefull and good assumption, that sourcing of /etc/defaults/rc.conf also sources all the files specified in rc_conf_files! After the change that a call of source_rc_confs is necessary one has to do a lot of changing in many startup scripts. However it is an unnecessary dependency which could produce many trouble. Is there a goot reason to change this nice behaviour from 3.X to 4.X ? >How-To-Repeat: - >Fix: call source_rc_files in /etc/defaults/rc.conf >Release-Note: >Audit-Trail: State-Changed-From-To: open->closed State-Changed-By: dougb State-Changed-When: Sat Feb 3 21:52:26 PST 2001 State-Changed-Why: Yes, there was a good reason for this change. /etc/defaults/rc.conf is sourced from many different locations at many different times (not just at boot). It should be a pure configuration file. Responsible-Changed-From-To: freebsd-bugs->dougb Responsible-Changed-By: dougb Responsible-Changed-When: Sat Feb 3 21:52:26 PST 2001 Responsible-Changed-Why: source_rc_confs was my dirty deed. http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=22151 >Unformatted: