From owner-freebsd-current Thu Oct 31 21: 0:43 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0BAE437B401 for ; Thu, 31 Oct 2002 21:00:42 -0800 (PST) Received: from dragon.nuxi.com (trang.nuxi.com [66.92.13.169]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 95ADF43E7B for ; Thu, 31 Oct 2002 21:00:41 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from obrien@NUXI.com) Received: from dragon.nuxi.com (obrien@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by dragon.nuxi.com (8.12.6/8.12.2) with ESMTP id gA150dJR080861; Thu, 31 Oct 2002 21:00:39 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from obrien@dragon.nuxi.com) Received: (from obrien@localhost) by dragon.nuxi.com (8.12.6/8.12.6/Submit) id gA14xOc1080835; Thu, 31 Oct 2002 20:59:24 -0800 (PST) Date: Thu, 31 Oct 2002 20:59:24 -0800 From: "David O'Brien" To: Tim Kientzle Cc: current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: RCng Awkwardness Message-ID: <20021101045924.GA80782@dragon.nuxi.com> Reply-To: current@freebsd.org Mail-Followup-To: David O'Brien , Tim Kientzle , current@freebsd.org References: <3DC03815.2050003@acm.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <3DC03815.2050003@acm.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4i X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 5.0-CURRENT Organization: The NUXI BSD Group X-Pgp-Rsa-Fingerprint: B7 4D 3E E9 11 39 5F A3 90 76 5D 69 58 D9 98 7A X-Pgp-Rsa-Keyid: 1024/34F9F9D5 Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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