What is difference between /etc/rc called programs and ones called after login prompt shows up

[Ivan Voras]

Aryeh Friedman wrote:
> On Sat, Aug 23, 2008 at 9:06 PM, Ivan Voras <ivoras at freebsd.org> wrote:
>> RW wrote:
>>
>>> There's another difference: your /etc/rc script doesn't export PATH.
>> And TERM.
> 
> Since I never set TERM why export it?

Sorry, by rereading the thread I think I misunderstood the context of
the post I was replying to. The reason for my suggestion was that I know
some utilitites that don't work when called before the login environment
is present because they use curses and somehow fail if there's no TERM.

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