Question about current rc scripts

[M.Hirsch]

I have investigated a bit more.

Setting the variables can't work. As far as I can see, rc.conf is 
sourced from rc.subr. And every single script in /etc/rc.d/ sources 
rc.subr, so they reload the rc.conf file for each call.
The "rc" scripts are being executed in a sub-shell though. So 
overwriting variables in any of them will have no effect on the 
following files. It does work for /usr/local/etc/rc.d though, but I 
really need it to execute before anything else.

I made it work by overwriting rc.diskless (again). Stupid /me, 
rc.diskless does not follow the syntax for rc scripts. It's just a 
"normal" shell script :)

Anyways, I would still be interested in the "correct" way to do it.

M.


Pete French schrieb:

>I thought rc.conf was simply a script that set some variables. If
>this is the case then you don't need to overwrite it - you simply need to
>make your script set the appropriate variables and then drop it in as
>a repplacement for rc.conf - hence no need to rewrite rc.conf at all.
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>-pcf.
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