From owner-freebsd-chat Wed Sep 8 2:33:23 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from mail.palmerharvey.co.uk (mail.palmerharvey.co.uk [62.172.109.58]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CD4191534C for ; Wed, 8 Sep 1999 02:33:15 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from Dom.Mitchell@palmerharvey.co.uk) Received: from ho-nt-01.pandhm.co.uk (unverified) by mail.palmerharvey.co.uk (Content Technologies SMTPRS 4.0.1) with ESMTP id ; Wed, 8 Sep 1999 10:32:03 +0100 Received: from voodoo.pandhm.co.uk (10.100.35.12 [10.100.35.12]) by ho-nt-01.pandhm.co.uk with SMTP (Microsoft Exchange Internet Mail Service Version 5.5.2448.0) id SNZVMJ7P; Wed, 8 Sep 1999 10:31:10 +0100 Received: from dom by voodoo.pandhm.co.uk with local (Exim 2.10 #1) id 11Oe5N-000HmJ-00; Wed, 8 Sep 1999 10:32:13 +0100 Date: Wed, 8 Sep 1999 10:32:13 +0100 To: Dag-Erling Smorgrav Cc: Phil Regnauld , Alfred Perlstein , Eric Wayte , Steven Kehlet , freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: anyone have System V jokes? Message-ID: <19990908103212.A68320@voodoo.pandhm.co.uk> References: <19990908100207.37441@ns.int.ftf.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0pre2i In-Reply-To: From: Dominic Mitchell Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Wed, Sep 08, 1999 at 10:11:31AM +0200, Dag-Erling Smorgrav wrote: > Phil Regnauld writes: > > /etc/rc.d (so far, I can describe it as: "theoretically cool, practically > > useless" -- noone almost ever uses that junk). > > Um, I don't know about Solaris, but it seems to work pretty well on > IRIX (disregarding the fact that it defaults to enable *all* services, > and that it's not always easy to find out what a particular service is > or why the machine stops working when you disable it) Well, I don't know about IRIX, but I have definite problems with the Solaris implementation. For instance, because of the way that sun ship it, you can't "just turn off inetd". Half of the scrips don't have a stop section. In short, nice idea, but a pain to work with. -- Dom Mitchell -- Palmer & Harvey McLane -- Unix Systems Administrator "vi has two modes the one in which it beeps and the one in which it doesnt." -- Anon. ********************************************************************** This email and any files transmitted with it are confidential and intended solely for the use of the individual or entity to whom they are addressed. If you have received this email in error please notify the system manager. This footnote also confirms that this email message has been swept by MIMEsweeper for the presence of computer viruses. www.mimesweeper.com ********************************************************************** To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message