From owner-freebsd-current Thu Dec 12 16: 2:38 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1B70637B401 for ; Thu, 12 Dec 2002 16:02:37 -0800 (PST) Received: from clover.kientzle.com (user-112uh9a.biz.mindspring.com [66.47.69.42]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4C3B443E4A for ; Thu, 12 Dec 2002 16:02:36 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from kientzle@acm.org) Received: from acm.org (c43 [66.47.69.43]) by clover.kientzle.com (8.11.3/8.11.3) with ESMTP id gBD02ME67428; Thu, 12 Dec 2002 16:02:22 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from kientzle@acm.org) Message-ID: <3DF9238E.9000704@acm.org> Date: Thu, 12 Dec 2002 16:02:22 -0800 From: Tim Kientzle Reply-To: kientzle@acm.org User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD i386; en-US; rv:0.9.6) Gecko/20011206 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "Daniel C. Sobral" Cc: Brad Knowles , current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: RC NG, ntp and routed References: <3DF7E948.9060508@acm.org> <3DF8C3B3.2060601@tcoip.com.br> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > Brad Knowles wrote: >> At 5:41 PM -0800 2002/12/11, Tim Kientzle wrote: >> > NETWORKING ... does not, in itself, depend on any filesystems. >> >> Sure it does. In order to do anything, you have to run programs -- right? The NETWORKING script does nothing. It runs no programs, therefore it needs no filesystems. It's purely a placeholder to simplify dependency specifications: all networking initialization is gauranteed to happen before NETWORKING. Therefore, scripts that require networking (such as lpd, sshd, ftpd, etc.) can safely depend on NETWORKING without having to know the details of the network initialization. For example, someone who needs a special routing daemon can add a script that REQUIREs network2 and comes BEFORE NETWORKING, and then their routing daemon will be started at the appropriate time: before any network-capable daemons (or remote filesystems), but after the initial interface configuration. Tim Kientzle To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message