From owner-freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.ORG Tue May 22 14:50:09 2012 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 72CA21065672 for ; Tue, 22 May 2012 14:50:09 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from wjw@digiware.nl) Received: from mail.digiware.nl (mail.ip6.digiware.nl [IPv6:2001:4cb8:1:106::2]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 044138FC0A for ; Tue, 22 May 2012 14:50:08 +0000 (UTC) Received: from rack1.digiware.nl (localhost.digiware.nl [127.0.0.1]) by mail.digiware.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id D2E5D153434; Tue, 22 May 2012 16:50:07 +0200 (CEST) X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at digiware.nl Received: from mail.digiware.nl ([127.0.0.1]) by rack1.digiware.nl (rack1.digiware.nl [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id NRH7ZYfEPaZa; Tue, 22 May 2012 16:50:07 +0200 (CEST) Received: from [192.168.10.67] (opteron [192.168.10.67]) by mail.digiware.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 10455153436; Tue, 22 May 2012 16:50:07 +0200 (CEST) Message-ID: <4FBBA79E.4020303@digiware.nl> Date: Tue, 22 May 2012 16:50:06 +0200 From: Willem Jan Withagen User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:12.0) Gecko/20120428 Thunderbird/12.0.1 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Peter Jeremy References: <20120513220646.GA12826@stack.nl> <4FB0CF88.5010309@FreeBSD.org> <3D895644-0BA5-44F7-AC8F-07323729C1AA@bsdimp.com> <88BE52F2-E8CC-455D-B7AF-CB1F876D48B7@bsdimp.com> <4FB960CC.4090607@digiware.nl> <20120521205326.GA2675@aspire.rulingia.com> In-Reply-To: <20120521205326.GA2675@aspire.rulingia.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Subject: Re: [patch] halt/reboot/shutdown cleanup X-BeenThere: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussion related to FreeBSD architecture List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 22 May 2012 14:50:09 -0000 On 2012-05-21 22:53, Peter Jeremy wrote: > [My vote on the halt/reboot/shutdown issue is that halt(8) & reboot(8) > should just be wrappers around reboot(2) and shutdown(8) should clean > up and run the rc.d shutdown scripts - but maybe I'm showing my age] > > On 2012-May-20 23:23:24 +0200, Willem Jan Withagen wrote: >> Although my strongest peave withs this is in the periodical scripts >> which are too talkative for my taste. > > You can control much of that via /etc/periodic.conf - see > /etc/defaults/periodic.conf for details. > >> eg. I haven't used dump in 10 years, but still my reports have dump >> lines in them. > > You probably still have a non-empty /etc/dumpdates. Unfortunately, > you can't separately control the "df -h" and "dump W" output[1] but > an empty /etc/dumpdates will reduce it to one line. > > [1] I think we're getting to the point where 400.status-disks should > be split into 2. dump(8) is becoming increasingly less relevant. > I used these as obvious examples, but there are much more.... But that would be stealing the thread. --WjW