From owner-cvs-all Thu Oct 12 12:11:31 2000 Delivered-To: cvs-all@freebsd.org Received: from jade.chc-chimes.com (jade.chc-chimes.com [216.28.46.6]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 76DA437B66D; Thu, 12 Oct 2000 12:11:25 -0700 (PDT) Received: by jade.chc-chimes.com (Postfix, from userid 1001) id 0E72C1C41; Thu, 12 Oct 2000 15:11:25 -0400 (EDT) Date: Thu, 12 Oct 2000 15:11:25 -0400 From: Bill Fumerola To: John Baldwin Cc: John Hay , Jordan Hubbard , Jeroen Ruigrok van der Werven , Tony Finch , Doug Barton , cvs-all@FreeBSD.org, cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, Warner Losh , Matt Dillon Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/etc inetd.conf Message-ID: <20001012151124.H37870@jade.chc-chimes.com> References: <20001012143936.D37870@jade.chc-chimes.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0i In-Reply-To: ; from jhb@FreeBSD.org on Thu, Oct 12, 2000 at 11:47:13AM -0700 X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 3.3-STABLE i386 Sender: owner-cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Thu, Oct 12, 2000 at 11:47:13AM -0700, John Baldwin wrote: > > It's not an overhead thing. I just get this funny feeling when I do ps and see > > sendmail running all day long. It makes much more sense for a program thats > > going to run once and do one thing to get run once and not sit in the background. > > That's because you don't properly understand what the process is doing. Don't be a twit[1]. > Does the cron process give you the heebee-jeebies? What about the "scary" > ones like vmdaemon, pagedaemon, syncer, and swapper? Come on, think with > your head. Do any of the above have a history of providing {remote,local} root into machines that goes back further then before both of us were born? No. > > Doesn't the word "cron" pop into everyones head when someone says "I'd like > > to run something once every X timeunits". > > Cron has uses for some things, but not for all things. Also, this change is > much less painless to a) other MTA's, and b) to sysinstall and descedants as > the only change is to sendmail_flags in rc.conf, rather than having to try > to automate editing of files. a) they should provide their own hooks into queueing ($PREFIX/etc/rc.d[2], etc) b) limitations of our installer shouldn't prevent other subsystems from doing things right. -- Bill Fumerola - Network Architect, BOFH / Chimes, Inc. billf@chimesnet.com / billf@FreeBSD.org 1. See, I can just flavor my emails with insults too.. 2. I don't mind postfix daemons running in the background... To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message