HEADS UP: Please clean out your */etc/rc.d directories

Doug Barton dougb at FreeBSD.org
Thu Dec 22 02:08:41 PST 2005


I should have said this in my last heads up message, sorry for forgetting 
about this important detail. The new code tries to run any script in a 
local_startup directory (by default /usr/local/etc/rc.d and 
/usr/X11R6/etc/rc.d) that has the execute bit set. So, if there is a script 
in one of those directories that you don't want run at all, the safest thing 
to do is to create a directory within rc.d, and move the script there. 
Parsing of these scripts is not a recursive operation. The second safest 
thing to do is to remove the execute bit from those scripts.

hth,

Doug

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