From owner-freebsd-stable Fri Jul 7 23: 6:39 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from freeway.dcfinc.com (cx74889-a.phnx3.az.home.com [24.1.193.157]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0D34937B854 for ; Fri, 7 Jul 2000 23:06:36 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from chad@freeway.dcfinc.com) Received: (from chad@localhost) by freeway.dcfinc.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) id XAA08414; Fri, 7 Jul 2000 23:06:23 -0700 (MST) (envelope-from chad) From: "Chad R. Larson" Message-Id: <200007080606.XAA08414@freeway.dcfinc.com> Subject: Re: HEADS UP: /etc/rc.shutdown calls local scripts now In-Reply-To: from "Brandon D. Valentine" at "Jul 7, 0 06:51:01 pm" To: bandix@looksharp.net (Brandon D. Valentine) Date: Fri, 7 Jul 2000 23:06:23 -0700 (MST) Cc: saper@system.pl, Gerhard.Sittig@gmx.net, freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Reply-To: chad@DCFinc.com X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL40 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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 -- Chad R. Larson (CRL15) 602-953-1392 Brother, can you paradigm? chad@dcfinc.com chad@larsons.org larson1@home.net DCF, Inc. - 14623 North 49th Place, Scottsdale, Arizona 85254-2207 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message