Re: Can "/etc/rc.conf" be replaced with a symlink?

From: Giorgos Keramidas (keramida_at_ceid.upatras.gr)
Date: 02/28/05

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To: Joshua Tinnin <krinklyfig@spymac.com>, Clay <crs.freebsd_mailinglist@users.nuaptools.com>

    On 2005-02-28 01:32, Joshua Tinnin <krinklyfig@spymac.com> wrote:
    >On Sunday 27 February 2005 08:11 pm, "Clay" wrote:
    >> I am for the most part a newbie to FreeBSD. I am wanting to move
    >> some config files from their standard location to a single
    >> directory and create symlinks for each. Doing this will allow me
    >> to more easily maintain and backup the files.
    >>
    >> dhclient is able to use dhclient.conf when symlink'd. Apache seems
    >> to also work when httpd.conf is symlink'd.
    >>
    >> Can "/etc/rc.conf" be replaced with a symlink? I have done and the
    >> file isn't being read/found. Moving the actual file back to /etc
    >> fixed the problem.
    >
    > I am not entirely sure, but to hazard a guess, this isn't working
    > because rc.conf loads before the other filesystems in /etc/fstab are
    > mounted, and you have the actual rc.conf file on one of those
    > filesystems (though you didn't specify). Apache (httpd) and dhclient
    > run after they are mounted. Thus, you would be able to symlink
    > rc.conf as long as the actual file is in the root filesystem (I
    > think), but I'm not sure if that's a good idea - it might be
    > alright, just never done it before.

    Correct.

    Some of the /etc/rc.d scripts need to read rc.conf before any of the
    filesystems have been mounted. Those scripts will fail if all they
    can see is a root filesystem, mounted read-only, and cannot access
    rc.conf options (because rc.conf has been moved somewhere else).

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