svn commit: r230007 - in head: etc etc/rc.d share/man/man8

[Brooks Davis]

On Fri, Jan 13, 2012 at 11:21:48AM +0400, Eygene Ryabinkin wrote:
> The related topic: in the process of grepping for dhclient within
> /etc, I had found that /etc/netstart still wants to invoke it.  But it
> will do a lone '/etc/rc.d/dhclient quietstart' and this will never
> be useful in the current state of dhclient: it will refuse to process
> any commands without the interface being specified.  And since we
> have the invocation of /etc/rc.d/netif just two lines above, I think
> that it will be good to remove call to dhclient from /etc/netstart.
> 
> At the time of the original addition of call to dhclient to /etc/netstart
> (r114213), dhclient script had another form,
>   http://svnweb.freebsd.org/base/head/etc/rc.d/dhclient?revision=113759&view=markup&pathrev=114213
> and it was really a normal rc.d script that requires only one argument.
> Now it is more of a helper-type script.
> .
> Am I missing something important here or the removal can really be
> done?

Removing it from /etc/netstart is the right thing to do.  Arguably it
should be moved to /libexec since it's not an rc.d script and simply
uses the framework because it had similar needs

-- Brooks
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