I agree with Jordan.
Jordan Krushen wrote:
>
> Hardly.. Why would you possibly lose changes by upgrading your OS? I've
> never seen an OS, especially FreeBSD, touch /usr/local/etc/rc.d from an
> upgrade. I'd imagine one that is backward enough to replace config files
> without asking would also overwrite rc.local. The *biggest* reason for
> having separate files is that if you accidentally forget a " or a ' in
> rc.local, chances are the rest of the script would not complete, and
> critical services (such as, say, sshd) would not load.
>
> Just picture working on your system remotely, rebooting, and not being able
> to get back in because of a silly little typo in rc.local. Having separate
> scripts in /usr/local/etc/rc.d completely rids you of that problem (only
> that particular script would fail). Far more reliable, far simpler (many
> startup scripts are rather large, and can clutter up rc.local), and more
> powerful -- most startup scripts aren't simply run, they're actually passed
> a 'start' parameter, and can be passed 'stop' ones as well. When installing
> a package, the install script can also easily create a single file in rc.d,
> whereas it would have to append something to rc.local, which isn't all that
> simple to do if it doesn't belong right at the end of the script. This way,
> newer versions of software can simply overwrite the script in rc.d if you
> chose to, instead of searching through rc.local to find relative blocks of
> code and replacing them (which would almost certainly screw up).
>
> rc.local is now deprecated on FreeBSD in favour of rc.d.
>
> J.
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Ed Carp <erc@stripped>
> To: <lh@stripped>
> Cc: <paul@stripped>; <mysql@stripped>;
> <dav3@stripped>
> Sent: Thursday, April 08, 1999 3:31 AM
> Subject: Re: silient and very short auto-start
>
> >On most systems, it is preferred to ut stuff in rc.local rather than in
> >rc.d. You'll find out why when it comes time to pgrade your OS and you
> >lose all your changes.
>
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