From owner-freebsd-hackers Mon May 18 10:51:00 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id KAA24957 for freebsd-hackers-outgoing; Mon, 18 May 1998 10:51:00 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from time.cdrom.com (root@time.cdrom.com [204.216.27.226]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id KAA24924 for ; Mon, 18 May 1998 10:50:51 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jkh@time.cdrom.com) Received: from time.cdrom.com (jkh@localhost.cdrom.com [127.0.0.1]) by time.cdrom.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id KAA28196; Mon, 18 May 1998 10:50:53 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jkh@time.cdrom.com) To: Dan Janowski cc: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: system config database... In-reply-to: Your message of "Mon, 18 May 1998 13:14:50 EDT." Date: Mon, 18 May 1998 10:50:53 -0700 Message-ID: <28192.895513853@time.cdrom.com> From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > It seems that there still a need for a per service > set of scripted instruction for startup. I'm not arguing that at all, I'm simply saying that the current system needlessly separates the configuration data from the actions associated with it. It's like having a shopping list where on one side you have "items to get: 1, 3, 2, 6, 9 and 5" and on the other you have "1 = milk, 2 = celery, 3 = ..." :-) The information needs to be combined and sh unfortunately isn't really "expressive" enough for that - a metaformat which gets compiled into sh or is even run by some sort of helper program, e.g. /etc/rc becomes a one liner: /sbin/systemrc /etc/rc.sys > An /etc/rc.d with mini-scripts for features. Some Ick, no, wrong direction again! ;-) - Jordan To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message