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Subject: source mechanism of /etc/rc.conf* files
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>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 
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