From owner-freebsd-current Sat Jul 12 06:05:04 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id GAA04468 for current-outgoing; Sat, 12 Jul 1997 06:05:04 -0700 (PDT) Received: from genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au (genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au [129.127.96.120]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id GAA04449 for ; Sat, 12 Jul 1997 06:04:59 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from msmith@localhost) by genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au (8.8.5/8.7.3) id WAA28798; Sat, 12 Jul 1997 22:34:39 +0930 (CST) From: Michael Smith Message-Id: <199707121304.WAA28798@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au> Subject: Re: Heads up and and a call for a show of hands. In-Reply-To: <7771.868708033@time.cdrom.com> from "Jordan K. Hubbard" at "Jul 12, 97 04:47:13 am" To: jkh@time.cdrom.com (Jordan K. Hubbard) Date: Sat, 12 Jul 1997 22:34:39 +0930 (CST) Cc: asami@cs.berkeley.edu, current@FreeBSD.ORG, hans@brandinnovators.com X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL28 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-current@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Jordan K. Hubbard stands accused of saying: > > Oh, and if you really want to keep everything in the subtrees, you can > > add /usr/dt/etc/rc.d to the list of startup script directories. It is > > a nice editable field in /etc/rc.conf now (thanks to you! :). > > Well, it's a nice field, yes. Editable I'm not so sure about. :-) > We need some way of doing this from scripts and other utilities, > and I guess that's the next step. Uhm, well with juliet (which I am thinking of renaming 'sysconfig' now that the name is fading from use). you could say something like : echo ".system.startup.local_startups add " | juliet The script to do this isn't in place yet, but all the infrastructure is. ftp://gsoft.com.au/pub/juliet.tar.gz if you're interested. No, I haven't had time to work on it lately; I'm still waiting to hear from anyone that knows how to bind a Perl interpreter into a Tcl interpreter so that I can invoke Perl functions by name, and take callbacks from the Perl interpreter. > Jordan -- ]] Mike Smith, Software Engineer msmith@gsoft.com.au [[ ]] Genesis Software genesis@gsoft.com.au [[ ]] High-speed data acquisition and (GSM mobile) 0411-222-496 [[ ]] realtime instrument control. (ph) +61-8-8267-3493 [[ ]] Unix hardware collector. Kommando gegen Terrorismus [[