From owner-freebsd-hackers Mon Feb 1 03:47:01 1999 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id DAA05724 for freebsd-hackers-outgoing; Mon, 1 Feb 1999 03:47:01 -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 DAA05706 for ; Mon, 1 Feb 1999 03:46:56 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dcs@newsguy.com) Received: from newsguy.com by peach.ocn.ne.jp (8.9.1a/OCN) id UAA02876; Mon, 1 Feb 1999 20:46:26 +0900 (JST) Message-ID: <36B58981.3F044A1F@newsguy.com> Date: Mon, 01 Feb 1999 20:01:21 +0900 From: "Daniel C. Sobral" X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.5 [en] (Win98; I) X-Accept-Language: pt-BR,ja MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Wes Peters CC: Peter Jeremy , hackers@FreeBSD.ORG, Robert Withrow Subject: Re: more modular rc/init/uninit system... References: <99Feb1.143847est.40350@border.alcanet.com.au> <36B5556B.1957A699@softweyr.com> 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 Wes Peters wrote: > > o The ability to specify some sort of alternate configuration name on > system startup, for instance to move between an ethernet and PPP > configuration. Not system startup. Notebooks don't reboot, they hibernate. :-) It is just a matter of creating dependencies using both && and || logic, possibly with a "preference" assignment in the case of ||, or "ask the user", or "warn and stop". I could code it in five minutes given a Prolog compiler. :-) -- 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