On Monday 08 Sep 2014 09:47:07 Stefan Esser wrote: > This was for a reason:
[snip detailed explanation why PROVIDE: is needed in local rc scripts] > This is obviously a shortcoming in the documentation, which should > be fixed. AFAIK, the old style startup files have never been > deprecated and are still fully supported ... Thanks for explaining this, it was very informative. I think it would be good if the documentation could indicate that the PROVIDE: line is mandatory for scripts in /usr/local/etc/rc.d. A couple of months ago I created a simple rc script based on the example at <https://www.freebsd.org/doc/en/articles/rc-scripting/rcng-confdummy.html> which does not use PROVIDE:. Since this script needed to run before local filesystems were mounted I had to install it into /etc/rc.d so fortunately it worked for me. If it had gone into /usr/local/etc/rc.d I would have been having difficulty working out why the documentation was providing code that didn't work. -- Mike Clarke _______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-ports To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[email protected]"
