rc.d scripts can be missed if they aren't ordered with respect to the early-late divider

Matthew Seaman m.seaman at infracaninophile.co.uk
Sat Apr 30 08:16:27 UTC 2011


On 29/04/2011 20:53, Doug Barton wrote:
> it's also not impossible that someone would put Wacky::Perl::Script in
> /usr/local/etc/rc.d, I wanted to err on the side of caution. :)

Uhuh. "Wacky::Perl::Script" implies a file name something like

/usr/local/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.10.1/Wacky/Perl/Script.pm

which is a library module rather than an executable program.  It would
take quite sinister dexterity to cope with such a file name in a perl
program.

	Cheers,

	Matthew

-- 
Dr Matthew J Seaman MA, D.Phil.                   7 Priory Courtyard
                                                  Flat 3
PGP: http://www.infracaninophile.co.uk/pgpkey     Ramsgate
JID: matthew at infracaninophile.co.uk               Kent, CT11 9PW

-------------- next part --------------
A non-text attachment was scrubbed...
Name: signature.asc
Type: application/pgp-signature
Size: 267 bytes
Desc: OpenPGP digital signature
Url : http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-rc/attachments/20110430/5bfe1f7d/signature.pgp


More information about the freebsd-rc mailing list