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% On 2003-06-01 at 12:52:13 -0700, Matt Thrailkill wrote: |
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> On Sun, 1 Jun 2003 08:49:14 -0400 |
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> Peter Johanson <latexer@g.o> wrote: |
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> > I've never seen anything which actually sources rc.conf and uses the |
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> > PROTOCOL variable in any way. I have no idea why that's there. anybody |
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> > enlighten me? |
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> # Set protocols to the protocols that you plan to use. Gentoo Linux will |
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> # only enable module auto-loading for these protocols, eliminating annoying |
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> # module not found errors. |
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IIRC variables from rc.conf are made available in the environment of the |
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running init.d scripts by /sbin/runscipt. ${PROTOCOL} _was_ used in the |
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very early days to determine whether servers like xinetd were to be run |
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with ipv6 support. Support for this seems to have been deprecated along |
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with the system-wide use of daemontools, that good work and the original |
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ipv6 integration having been done by A. Gottinger. |
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It would be nicely consistent if you were to use this variable for |
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determining when to initialize ipv6 interfaces and services in the init |
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scripts, IMHO. |
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Gontran |
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