rc(8) out-of-date.

[Doug Barton]

Pawel Jakub Dawidek wrote:
> On Mon, Aug 21, 2006 at 02:37:08PM -0700, Doug Barton wrote:
>> Pawel Jakub Dawidek wrote:
>>> Hi.
>>>
>>> AFAIK /usr/local/etc/rc.d/ is using rcorder(8) now. Could someone update
>>> rc(8) manual page?
>> I thought I had done that, at least in HEAD. What branch are you seeing the
>> omission in?
> 
> On:
> 
> 	> uname -v
> 	FreeBSD 7.0-CURRENT #9: Thu Aug 10 23:56:04 CEST 2006 root at anger.dawidek.net:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/ANGER
> 
> I see this:
> 
>      o   The scripts within each directory are executed in lexicographical
>          order.  If a specific order is required, numbers may be used as a
>          prefix to the existing filenames, so for example 100.foo would be
>          executed before 200.bar; without the numeric prefixes the opposite
>          would be true.
> 
> I thought this is not longer true, is it?
> 

I see now. :) You missed the header at the top of that section that says,
"The following key points apply to old-style scripts in
/usr/local/etc/rc.d." Scripts that don't use rc.d (PROVIDE, REQUIRE, etc.)
are still handled in the manner described.

If we get all (?) the scripts in ports converted to rc.d we might deprecate
this behavior for 7-RELEASE, but it will stay for 6.x-RELEASE for sure, and
probably won't be deprecated until 8-RELEASE.

hth,

Doug

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