On Mon, Sep 10, 2007 at 10:52:02AM -0700, Dave Hayes wrote: > I believe pkgsrc puts rc.d style scripts in /usr/pkg/etc/rc.d. I've also > put a few in there myself.
It hasn't done that for ages. > There's two reasons I personally like this idea, one is to keep the > startup script with the prefix where it's software installed, and two is > that I tend to keep as much local software modification out of /etc as > possible. Copy / symlink them by hand and use a prefix. > > By the way, FreeBSD's startup scripts check the rc.d scripts for the a > > rcorder tag to then use rcorder to order them. > > This sounds like a good thing to bring to DragonFly. :) No, it is a complete mess. If you really want to keep them separate, use a second directory like /etc/rc.d.pkg and change /etc/rc to scan that as well. Joerg
