From owner-freebsd-stable Fri Jul 7 17:19:15 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from moek.pir.net (moek.pir.net [209.192.237.190]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5819537B73D for ; Fri, 7 Jul 2000 17:19:10 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from pir@pir.net) Received: from pir by moek.pir.net with local (Exim) id 13AiKp-0000Du-00 for freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG; Fri, 07 Jul 2000 20:19:07 -0400 Date: Fri, 7 Jul 2000 20:19:06 -0400 From: Peter Radcliffe To: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: HEADS UP: /etc/rc.shutdown calls local scripts now Message-ID: <20000707201906.B28025@pir.net> Reply-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Mail-Followup-To: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG References: <20000707190315.A15083@tricord.system.pl> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2i In-Reply-To: ; from bandix@looksharp.net on Fri, Jul 07, 2000 at 06:51:01PM -0400 X-fish: < X-Copy-On-Listmail: Please do NOT Cc: me on list mail. Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG "Brandon D. Valentine" probably said: > One could leave the current init system alone and write a set of perl > scripts to read a configuration file and start and stop daemons > according to what the config file says. Requiring perl for start/stop ? Can I just say; EWWW ! Personally I like the SYSV style start/stop in general and it can be done perfectly cleanly in sh. P. -- pir pir@pir.net pir@net.tufts.edu To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message