From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Oct 16 16:47:41 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from guru.mired.org (okc-65-31-203-60.mmcable.com [65.31.203.60]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 2EEFB37B405 for ; Tue, 16 Oct 2001 16:47:34 -0700 (PDT) Received: (qmail 14453 invoked by uid 100); 16 Oct 2001 23:47:29 -0000 From: Mike Meyer MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <15308.50961.291554.714786@guru.mired.org> Date: Tue, 16 Oct 2001 18:47:29 -0500 To: Andrew Reid Cc: Mike Meyer , questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Network Startup In-Reply-To: <20011017090404.B16064@plug.cx> References: <88624047@toto.iv> <15308.23901.224115.801253@guru.mired.org> <20011017090404.B16064@plug.cx> X-Mailer: VM 6.90 under 21.1 (patch 14) "Cuyahoga Valley" XEmacs Lucid X-face: "5Mnwy%?j>IIV\)A=):rjWL~NB2aH[}Yq8Z=u~vJ`"(,&SiLvbbz2W`;h9L,Yg`+vb1>RG% *h+%X^n0EZd>TM8_IB;a8F?(Fb"lw'IgCoyM.[Lg#r\ Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Andrew Reid types: > > There is work afoot for incorporating the 5.0 to incorporate the > > NetBSD startup system, which picks up that one good feature of the > > System V stuff, adds a few other goodies, and doesn't otherwise act > > like a bilge pump. > I'm not particularly familiar with the NetBSD startup system. Tell me, > does it support this slightly simplified way of restarting the network > interfaces? Yes. The various system services are broken out by script ala /usr/local/etc/rc.d, so you can start and stop them individualy. Unlike the System V mess for deciding what gets started and stopped, rc.conf gets read to figure out what the admin wants running. Topological sorting is then done on the contents of rc.d so that 1) everything required to get what the admin wants running started will be run, and 2) it all gets started in the right order. It wasn't clear when I lasted looked at it that starting or stopping something by hand will start and stop all the things that depend on it. > Will 5.0 incorporate this kind of startup procedure? As I've said > before, seemingly little effort is required on a per-service basis to > "enable" them for this kind of startup procedure, with so much in the > areas of ease of use to gain. It's being worked on. Last time I looked, it was optional so it could be worked on without disturbing other work. http://www.mired.org/home/mwm/ Q: How do you make the gods laugh? A: Tell them your plans. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message