Date: Thu, 31 Oct 2002 20:59:24 -0800 From: "David O'Brien" <dev-null@NUXI.com> To: Tim Kientzle <kientzle@acm.org> Cc: current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: RCng Awkwardness Message-ID: <20021101045924.GA80782@dragon.nuxi.com> In-Reply-To: <3DC03815.2050003@acm.org> References: <3DC03815.2050003@acm.org>
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On Wed, Oct 30, 2002 at 11:50:45AM -0800, Tim Kientzle wrote: > I find the standard arguments used by RCng quite > awkward. In particular, especially for people who > have worked with SysV-style init scripts, it's We aren't trying to be compatable with SysV. We are compatable with other BSD's with an RCng deployment. > I would find it vastly more intuitive if the > current arguments were named differently: > > current 'start' -> new 'boot' > current 'stop' -> new 'shutdown' > current 'forcestart' -> new 'start' > current 'forcestop' -> new 'stop' No thank you. This would be a gratitious change from the existing BSD prior art. > This better reflects the actual usage: > the current 'start' and 'stop' are really > intended to be used by RC at system boot > and shutdown time. No, they are also used by sysadmins wanting to cycle a service. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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