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Date:      Fri, 7 Jul 2000 23:06:23 -0700 (MST)
From:      "Chad R. Larson" <chad@DCFinc.com>
To:        bandix@looksharp.net (Brandon D. Valentine)
Cc:        saper@system.pl, Gerhard.Sittig@gmx.net, freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: HEADS UP: /etc/rc.shutdown calls local scripts now
Message-ID:  <200007080606.XAA08414@freeway.dcfinc.com>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0007071847450.10220-100000@turtle.looksharp.net> from "Brandon D. Valentine" at "Jul 7, 0 06:51:01 pm"

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As I recall, Brandon D. Valentine wrote:
> You could probably even do it in Bourne shell if you were very clean
> about it, but I would prefer to parse the conf file in perl myself.
> This would be a much better idea than SYSV-afying our init.

As we seem to be going to hash this to death, allow me to point out
the SysV "run states" can be quite useful.  For example, we failover
our production OLTP servers to their warm standby machines by typing
"init 4".  Not too much an operator can get wrong there.

	-crl
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Chad R. Larson (CRL15)   602-953-1392   Brother, can you paradigm?
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