From owner-freebsd-stable Fri Jul 7 18:10:15 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from dt052n3e.san.rr.com (dt052n3e.san.rr.com [204.210.33.62]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9ABFC37B6A2 for ; Fri, 7 Jul 2000 18:10:07 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from Doug@gorean.org) Received: from slave (doug@slave [10.0.0.1]) by dt052n3e.san.rr.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id SAA47293; Fri, 7 Jul 2000 18:09:43 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from Doug@gorean.org) Date: Fri, 7 Jul 2000 18:09:43 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug Barton X-Sender: doug@dt052n3e.san.rr.com To: cjclark@alum.mit.edu Cc: Jonathan Smith , Mikko Tyolajarvi , freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: HEADS UP: /etc/rc.shutdown calls local scripts now In-Reply-To: <20000706220229.B682@dialin-client.earthlink.net> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Thu, 6 Jul 2000, Crist J. Clark wrote: > On Thu, Jul 06, 2000 at 05:39:08PM -0500, Jonathan Smith wrote: > > > > Then what's the problem? > > I think everyone is loosing sight what the "heads up" is really > about. The problem is going to be that the files in > /usr/local/etc/rc.d now must _pay attention_ to the argument sent to > them. Right now, many scripts in there do a startup procedure when > called. (period) This will need to be fixed. There _will_ be some > pain. And what some of us are saying is that the pain is not a requirement to make this feature work. There are ways to accomplish the goal that this proposal wants to accomplish without all of the "pain" that suddenly changing everything around will engender. Please don't get me wrong here, I fully support the sysv style start/stop/status parms for rc scripts. In fact, I have grander plans than the ones proposed here for the startup scripts in /etc. However, if we give this plan some more thought we can definitely come up with a solution that does what we need/want it to do without throwing everything into a tizzy first. Doug -- "Live free or die" - State motto of my ancestral homeland, New Hampshire Do YOU Yahoo!? To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message