From owner-freebsd-current Mon Oct 23 14:49:59 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from linux.ssc.nsu.ru (linux.ssc.nsu.ru [193.124.219.91]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 9C7DC37B479 for ; Mon, 23 Oct 2000 14:49:55 -0700 (PDT) Received: (qmail 11659 invoked from network); 23 Oct 2000 21:49:52 -0000 Received: from inet.ssc.nsu.ru (62.76.110.12) by hub.freebsd.org with SMTP; 23 Oct 2000 21:49:52 -0000 Received: from localhost (danfe@localhost) by inet.ssc.nsu.ru (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id EAA24002 for ; Tue, 24 Oct 2000 04:49:40 +0700 Date: Tue, 24 Oct 2000 04:49:40 +0700 (NOVST) From: Alexey Dokuchaev To: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: new rc.network6 and rc.firewall6 In-Reply-To: <20001022153957.A4742@dragon.nuxi.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Sun, 22 Oct 2000, David O'Brien wrote: > On Sat, Oct 21, 2000 at 11:05:37AM -0700, Jordan Hubbard wrote: > > > I wish to update rc.network6 and introduce rc.firewall6. > > > > Hmmmm. I must confess that I see /etc as getting rather cluttered > > these days. Is there no way to perhaps collapse some of the most > > related functionality into single files and start passing arguments > > or something? Just a comment.. > > At BSDcon Luke M showed me what the NetBSD 1.5 rc files look like. > They've moved them all to /etc/rc.d/ and made them very granular (as > SVR4, but w/o leading numbers in the filenames). The NetBSD > implementation also solved all the issues people have brought up in the > past -- dependacies, etc... > > We should just move to using their rc code. Well, would not be this stepping aside from BSD startup sequence, which we all know and love? Having dozens of small files instead of pair of big ones always frustrates me when I have to work with linux. -- With all due respect, DAN Fe To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message