From owner-freebsd-hackers Mon Feb 1 03:46:42 1999 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id DAA05535 for freebsd-hackers-outgoing; Mon, 1 Feb 1999 03:46:42 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from peach.ocn.ne.jp (peach.ocn.ne.jp [210.145.254.87]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id DAA05527 for ; Mon, 1 Feb 1999 03:46:37 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dcs@newsguy.com) Received: from newsguy.com by peach.ocn.ne.jp (8.9.1a/OCN) id UAA02862; Mon, 1 Feb 1999 20:46:17 +0900 (JST) Message-ID: <36B52323.FE27286D@newsguy.com> Date: Mon, 01 Feb 1999 12:44:35 +0900 From: "Daniel C. Sobral" X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.5 [en] (Win98; I) X-Accept-Language: pt-BR,ja MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Curt Sampson CC: Robert Withrow , Dru Nelson , freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: more modular rc/init/uninit system... References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Curt Sampson wrote: > > One interesting thing you can do with this is dump your own script, > `foo', into the directory which says `x, y and z are all dependent > on me.' Then you can start or stop foo, and that would take care > of starting and stopping x, y and z. This will let you emulate SysV > run levels, but also provide a lot more flexability. Yeah, and having to change my ppp dial on demand script everytime I add something that depends on it. Scripts shouldn't have to be changed. That's the main benefit of FreeBSD's rc.conf. -- Daniel C. Sobral (8-DCS) dcs@newsguy.com She just looked at him over the rotating pencil like, how slow can a mammal be and still have respiratory functions? To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message