Update removes custom lines from rc.shutdown

Thomas Nikolajsen thomas.nikolajsen at mail.dk
Fri Jul 24 06:35:41 PDT 2009


>I noticed twice that updating system removed the custom lines I
>entered in rc.shutdown.
>Is there any way to prevent this?
>Also is there any where else custom configuration will be removed
>during updates?

Try using /etc/rc.shutdown.local and set local_enable=YES in /etc/rc.conf
(see /etc/rc.d/local).

I will update /etc/rc.shutdown and rc(8) to point this out.

Files users are meant to change aren't changed by update.

 -thomas





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