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Re: Comments on rc-athena package
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Emil Sit)
Sun Feb 4 17:39:13 1996
To: Erik Nygren <nygren@MIT.EDU>
Cc: linux-dev@MIT.EDU
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sun, 04 Feb 1996 17:31:34 EST."
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Date: Sun, 04 Feb 1996 17:38:44 EST
From: Emil Sit <sit@MIT.EDU>
> Just a few (mostly nitpicky) comments on the rc.athena package:
>
> >>>> . /etc/athena/rc.conf
>
> Shouldn't rc.conf be preprocessed in some way? We're not using the
> variables that would be affected, but they should either be removed or
> corrected. (Maybe just removed?)
Hm. In the Ultrix and Sun rc.athena, it is not
preprocessed. Presumably, there will be a local copy of the file that
is modified as appropriate for the system (e.g. HOST, ADDR). Derek
suggested that we use sed to do this as we install packages using
install.sh stuff.
In any case, there are no scripts which reference most of the
variables in there.
> ATHENA_RC_CONF=/etc/athena/rc.conf
> if [ -f ${ATHENA_RC_CONF} ] ; then
> . ${ATHENA_RC_CONF}
I do like to stick with the way other people have been doing things
and they don't have anything like that. It seems like a reasonable
thing to do though. Anyone else care? If not, I'll make the
appropriate change.
> /etc/athena/gettime -s $TIMEHUB
Done. Oops.
> I'm also unconvinced that rc.athena should be in /etc/athena. It (or
> at least a symlink to it) really belongs in /etc/rc.d/rc.athena.
Hm. If we eventually move to syspack, it would probably be better to
have it as a symlink from rc.d to athena. I'm again open to suggestion
on this. I'm not sure how much to make things syspacklike while we
stick with this Slackware style install.
Emil
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