From owner-freebsd-arch Tue Mar 27 20:48:21 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Received: from point.osg.gov.bc.ca (point.osg.gov.bc.ca [142.32.102.44]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8802337B719 for ; Tue, 27 Mar 2001 20:48:18 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from Cy.Schubert@uumail.gov.bc.ca) Received: (from daemon@localhost) by point.osg.gov.bc.ca (8.8.7/8.8.8) id UAA13999; Tue, 27 Mar 2001 20:46:13 -0800 Received: from passer.osg.gov.bc.ca(142.32.110.29) via SMTP by point.osg.gov.bc.ca, id smtpda13997; Tue Mar 27 20:46:05 2001 Received: (from uucp@localhost) by passer.osg.gov.bc.ca (8.11.2/8.9.1) id f2S4jun72509; Tue, 27 Mar 2001 20:45:56 -0800 (PST) Received: from cwsys9.cwsent.com(10.2.2.1), claiming to be "cwsys.cwsent.com" via SMTP by passer9.cwsent.com, id smtpdp72505; Tue Mar 27 20:45:26 2001 Received: (from uucp@localhost) by cwsys.cwsent.com (8.11.3/8.9.1) id f2S4j5S14065; Tue, 27 Mar 2001 20:45:05 -0800 (PST) Message-Id: <200103280445.f2S4j5S14065@cwsys.cwsent.com> Received: from localhost.cwsent.com(127.0.0.1), claiming to be "cwsys" via SMTP by localhost.cwsent.com, id smtpdU14058; Tue Mar 27 20:44:52 2001 X-Mailer: exmh version 2.3.1 01/18/2001 with nmh-1.0.4 Reply-To: Cy Schubert - ITSD Open Systems Group From: Cy Schubert - ITSD Open Systems Group X-Sender: schubert To: Terry Lambert Cc: rjesup@wgate.com, Cy.Schubert@uumail.gov.bc.ca (Cy Schubert - ITSD Open Systems\ Group), jar@integratus.com (Jack Rusher), areilly@bigpond.net.au (Andrew Reilly), jkh@osd.bsdi.com (Jordan Hubbard), jonathan@graehl.org, freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: configuration files, XML? In-reply-to: Your message of "Tue, 27 Mar 2001 18:46:45 GMT." <200103271847.LAA12668@usr05.primenet.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Tue, 27 Mar 2001 20:44:52 -0800 Sender: owner-freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG In message <200103271847.LAA12668@usr05.primenet.com>, Terry Lambert writes: > I'm going to be shot, but... > > > >I think it has less to do with offending people than having an O/S that > > >is compatible with the other UNIX O/S's out there. For example, > > >syslog.conf, services, protocols, inetd.conf, to name a few can be > > >maintained and copied to FreeBSD, Linux (excepting inetd.conf), > > > > This is a very good point. > > And the rc files. BSD is gratuitously different. This is going to sound like sacrilege and inflammatory, especially to a BSD crowd, however most of what is out there, Solaris, AIX, DG-UX, Tru64-UNIX (in a weird sort of way), just to name a couple, try to conform the the SYSV standard. Not that I'm proposing that we do this now but it might be a good idea to have two init's, one for BSD and the other for SYSV compatibility or to have our init be able to optionally behave SYSV-like through some flag or #ifdef. I'm not proposing scrapping our init or its default behaviour. I'm not just talking about rc files but run levels and init's management of process creation & termination. However I would be happy with just the rc file structure, only because it helps me leverage my time better across platforms. /etc/rc.d might be a good place to start. This is something I've been thinking a lot about over the last couple of years and I've been pondering implementing this idea using a port initially and subsequently presenting it to this list for discussion someday. Of course if the FreeBSD community doesn't want it, it would be a total waste of time. Regards, Phone: (250)387-8437 Cy Schubert Fax: (250)387-5766 Team Leader, Sun/Alpha Team Internet: Cy.Schubert@osg.gov.bc.ca Open Systems Group, ITSD, ISTA Province of BC To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-arch" in the body of the message