From owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Aug 6 23:48:02 2008 Return-Path: Delivered-To: hackers@FreeBSD.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 16D751065679 for ; Wed, 6 Aug 2008 23:48:02 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from wbentley@futurecis.com) Received: from mail1.futurecis.com (static-72-66-21-14.washdc.fios.verizon.net [72.66.21.14]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B2F7C8FC16 for ; Wed, 6 Aug 2008 23:48:01 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from wbentley@futurecis.com) Received: (qmail 89182 invoked from network); 6 Aug 2008 23:20:04 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO secure.futurecis.com) ([10.0.0.10]) (envelope-sender ) by mail1.futurecis.com (qmail-ldap-1.03) with SMTP for ; 6 Aug 2008 23:20:04 -0000 Received: from 130.76.96.17 (SquirrelMail authenticated user wbentley) by secure.futurecis.com with HTTP; Wed, 6 Aug 2008 19:14:51 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: Date: Wed, 6 Aug 2008 19:14:51 -0400 (EDT) From: wbentley@futurecis.com To: hackers@FreeBSD.org User-Agent: SquirrelMail/1.4.15 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain;charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Importance: Normal X-Mailman-Approved-At: Thu, 07 Aug 2008 01:56:06 +0000 Cc: Subject: Idea for FreeBSD X-BeenThere: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Technical Discussions relating to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 06 Aug 2008 23:48:02 -0000 To who it may concern, I am A FreeBSD administrator as well as a Solaris Administrator. I use BSD at home but Solaris at work. I love both OS's but I would like to increase the administrative capability of FreeBSD. In Solaris 10 the Services Management Facility (SMF) was introduced. Basically what it does, is take all the rc.d scripts and puts them into a database to manage. Everything is converted to XML and two basic commands (svcs and svcadm) are used to manage everything. I would like to submit the idea of implementing a similar environment into FreeBSD. After looking through the developers links and googling I found no project for FreeBSD that implemented anything similar to this. I have included a link below to give a better understanding of SMF and its capabilities. Is it possible, if it does not exist already, to look at the possibility of implementing the concept of SMF into FreeBSD? I would gladly be an active supporter in this endeavor. Will Bentley Future CIS 410-782-5954 "Your resource for computer expertise!"