From owner-freebsd-current Mon Oct 23 14:16: 4 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from femail4.sdc1.sfba.home.com (femail4.sdc1.sfba.home.com [24.0.95.84]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D827E37B4D7; Mon, 23 Oct 2000 14:15:56 -0700 (PDT) Received: from beastie.localdomain ([24.19.158.41]) by femail4.sdc1.sfba.home.com (InterMail vM.4.01.03.00 201-229-121) with ESMTP id <20001023211440.KKVG26316.femail4.sdc1.sfba.home.com@beastie.localdomain>; Mon, 23 Oct 2000 14:14:40 -0700 Received: (from brian@localhost) by beastie.localdomain (8.9.3/8.8.7) id OAA47030; Mon, 23 Oct 2000 14:18:15 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from brian) Date: Mon, 23 Oct 2000 14:18:15 -0700 From: "Brian O'Shea" To: "Brandon D. Valentine" Cc: "Brian O'Shea" , "David O'Brien" , bv@wjv.com, freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: new rc.network6 and rc.firewall6 Message-ID: <20001023141815.A622@beastie.localdomain> Reply-To: boshea@ricochet.net Mail-Followup-To: "Brandon D. Valentine" , Brian O'Shea , David O'Brien , bv@wjv.com, freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG References: <20001023134843.Y622@beastie.localdomain> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.95.4i In-Reply-To: ; from Brandon D. Valentine on Mon, Oct 23, 2000 at 05:07:42PM -0400 Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Mon, Oct 23, 2000 at 05:07:42PM -0400, Brandon D. Valentine wrote: > On Mon, 23 Oct 2000, Brian O'Shea wrote: > > >Sounds interesting. To add a new rc script to the system, do you have > >to add an entry to an "rc order list" somewhere (in addition to adding > >the new script)? How is that handled? The nice (or clumsy, depending > >on your point of view) part about the SysV way is that the order in > >which the rc scripts are executed is implicit in the scripts' names. > >Of course, they have added a symlink maze (worse, hard links on HP-UX) > >on top of that, making it tedious to maintain rc scripts by hand > >(maybe that was by design). > > Hmm I don't have any NetBSD machines running the later 1.5 revisions > yet, so I've not seen the new scripts, but I would say that adding a new > script to a list of rc files would be much less hassle than adding an > entry in a monolithic /etc/rc to process that new file. > I agree. However, I was comparing it to the SysV rc script format, not to the existing BSD rc scripts. -brian -- Brian O'Shea boshea@ricochet.net To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message