On Fri, Feb 08, 2008 at 03:23:33PM +0100, Dominic Fandrey wrote: > Carlos A. M. dos Santos wrote: > >On Feb 8, 2008 4:27 AM, Dominic Fandrey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >>... > >>I put the following into my rc.conf: > >># Set mode for CD/DVD drive. > >>/sbin/atacontrol mode acd0 2>&1 | /usr/bin/grep PIO > /dev/null 2>&1 \ > >> && /sbin/atacontrol mode acd0 UDMA33 > > > >Do not put this in rc.conf. It will be executed again each time a > >script in /etc/rc.d source rc.conf to obtain the configuration > >variables. > > Hence the check, weather the drive is in PIO mode or not. The way I > understand the rc(8) manual page, the same is true for rc.local. >...
As I learned some years ago, rc.conf is for configuration
variable-setting, not executable code. Ref. (from rc.conf(5)):
DESCRIPTION
The file rc.conf contains descriptive information about the local host
name, configuration details for any potential network interfaces and
which services should be started up at system initial boot time....
/usr/local/etc/rc.d/* generally contains executable code, though.
Peace,
david
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