Creating default dirs with rc scripts

Doug Barton dougb at FreeBSD.org
Sat Feb 18 23:53:27 UTC 2012


On 02/18/2012 04:56, rflynn at acsalaska.net wrote:
> Should the rc script create these directories so that things "work out of the
> box"

The answer to this question is always yes.

> or should it not, as to not create unneeded directories during upgrades?

A few spurious empty directories is a tiny problem. Not having things
work OOB is a big problem. :)

Make sure to @dirrmtry the directories in the plist.


hth,

Doug

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