Why do we need to have ANY of the file inclusion in /etc/defaults/rc.conf?
Shouldn't that file simply be definitions of variables?
IMHO, the "logic" should be in "rc" itself.


On Sat, 20 Mar 1999, Scot W. Hetzel wrote:

> What does everyone think about using this at the end of
> /etc/defaults/rc.conf?
> 
> for i in ${rc_conf_files}; do
>     if [ $0 != $i ]; then
>          if [ -f $i ]; then
>                  . $i
>          fi
>     else
>         echo "Error: $0 isn't allowed to re-load $i."
>         echo "Error: Please do not copy /etc/defaults/rc.conf to
> /etc/rc.conf"
>     fi
> done
> 
> If someone does copy the /etc/defaults/rc.conf to /etc/rc.conf, /etc/rc.conf
> will not reload it's self, thus it will never get stuck in an endless loop.



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