Software installation opinions needed

[Wm E. Davidsen Jr]

In article <ROWE.90Sep26052322 at doc.cme.nist.gov> rowe at cme.nist.gov (Walter Rowe) writes:

|     # Call my local rc.site script
|     if [ -x /usr/local/sys/rc.site ]; then
| 	/usr/local/sys/rc.site		> /dev/console		2>&1
|     fi

  Arcane. I would expect:

 	. /usr/local/sys/rc.site	> /dev/console		2>&1

so that you could define the shell variables to be used in the rest of
the script. I have a similar problem and found this to be the only way I
could keep it modular and small. I run the local customize early in the
script, and that may define RUNMELAST for things which run at the end of
the startup.

ie. [ -n "$RUNMELAST"] && [ -x $RUNMELAST ] && . $RUNMELAST

Note that again . is used to pass any symbols defined during startup.
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