Bridge config in /etc/rc (patch)

[Doug Barton]

On Wed, 7 May 2003, Terry Lambert wrote:

> Doug Barton wrote:
> > On Tue, 6 May 2003, Benjamin F. Burke wrote:
> > Experienced users can fend for themselves regarding edge cases like bridge
> > configurations. That's what rc.local is for. I'm worried about not
> > overwhelming new users.
>
> As an idea here, is it possible to have a large list of rc files
> in a particular location in directories that would automatically
> be run in their own directory, and automatically get their defaults
> sourced in, and have their own rc.conf's that get sourced in, etc.?
>
> If there were a subdirectory traversal for (currently non-existant)
> subdirectories in /usr/local somewhere, then each one of these
> "fend for yourself" cases could be implemented as ports.
>
> /usr/ports/rc/* anyone?

/usr/local/etc/rc.d has already been suggested, and it's a direction I'd
like to see us move in. Because the ordering of dependencies is
non-trivial, I'm not sure having more than one such directory is a
realistic target atm, but at least having one is definitely doable.

Doug

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