From owner-freebsd-hackers Mon Nov 30 08:36:36 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id IAA12980 for freebsd-hackers-outgoing; Mon, 30 Nov 1998 08:36:36 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from iquest3.iquest.net (iquest3.iquest.net [209.43.20.203]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id IAA12975 for ; Mon, 30 Nov 1998 08:36:35 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from toor@y.dyson.net) Received: (qmail 9318 invoked from network); 30 Nov 1998 16:36:22 -0000 Received: from dyson.iquest.net (HELO y.dyson.net) (198.70.144.127) by iquest3.iquest.net with SMTP; 30 Nov 1998 16:36:22 -0000 Received: (from root@localhost) by y.dyson.net (8.9.1/8.9.1) id LAA02843; Mon, 30 Nov 1998 11:36:17 -0500 (EST) Message-Id: <199811301636.LAA02843@y.dyson.net> Subject: Re: System V init (was: Linux to be deployed in Mexican schools; Where was FreeBSD?) In-Reply-To: <3662BF23.613FB80D@softweyr.com> from Wes Peters at "Nov 30, 98 08:52:03 am" To: wes@softweyr.com (Wes Peters) Date: Mon, 30 Nov 1998 11:36:17 -0500 (EST) Cc: adrian@ubergeeks.com, grog@lemis.com, dyson@iquest.net, tlambert@primenet.com, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG From: "John S. Dyson" Reply-To: dyson@iquest.net X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL38 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Wes Peters said: > ADRIAN Filipi-Martin wrote: > > > > I still don't understand why this has become an issue again. > > There is /usr/local/etc/rc.d. The scrtips are called with "start" and > > using rc.shutdown, you can make sure they are called with "stop". What > > more does a third party software vendor need? They certainly cannot care > > about how basic system functions are managed. > > I realized this over the weekend, too. Perhaps symlinks from /etc/init.d > and /etc/rc[1-6].d -> /usr/local/etc/rc.d? ;^) > The current "rc" components are monolithic, and not a good general solution. The "rc.conf" is helpful, and covers alot of general cases, but a better framework would support the "broad brush" rc.conf, and also a more modular "rc.d" scheme. Runlevels and/or runmodes are also valuable. -- John | Never try to teach a pig to sing, dyson@iquest.net | it makes one look stupid jdyson@nc.com | and it irritates the pig. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message