Doug Barton van het FreeBSD Team zegt dat de “next generation version” geimporteerd uit NetBSD‚ aangepast en verbeterd‚ de plaats zal innemen van de boot scripts in “/etc”. Alle functionaliteit van het oude systeem zijn bewaard gebleven en de gebruikers kunnen nog steeds hun systeem configureren met de bekende methodes‚ rc.conf‚ rc.firewall‚ etc. Het rcNG systeem is de standaard in 5.0-RELEASE‚ and was al standaard sinds de FreeBSD-current van September 2002. Daarom worden er geen grote problemen verwacht bij de doorsnee gebruikers.
[quote]However‚ users who have
customized their rc scripts should be aware that the following files have
been removed from the base:
rc.atm
rc.devfs
rc.diskless1
rc.diskless2
rc.i386
rc.alpha
rc.amd64
rc.ia64
rc.sparc64
rc.isdn
rc.network
rc.network6
rc.pccard
rc.sendmail
rc.serial
rc.syscons
rc.sysctl
Your personal versions of these files will not be removed‚ so you can
continue to use them. However‚ you should take great care when updating‚
especially when using mergemaster‚ since the compatibility code that
utilizes these old scripts has also been removed.
For the vast majority of users who have not modified their rc scripts‚ the
new version of mergemaster has an option to move the old versions out of
/etc so that you can remove them completely at your convenience.
Users who would like to learn more about the new system should take a look
at the man page for rc.subr(8). If you have any problems‚ concerns‚ or
suggestions regarding the new system‚ please feel free to send an e-mail
to freebsd-current@freebsd.org and/or freebsd-rc@yahoogroups.com.
Please join me in congratulating the very hard working rcNG team on this
major accomplishment. I’d also like to extend my thanks to the other
committers who’ve contributed to the success of this project. A lot of
people have contributed code‚ ideas‚ and time to test patches. It’s
greatly appreciated.
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