From owner-freebsd-chat Wed Sep 8 3: 2:48 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from flood.ping.uio.no (flood.ping.uio.no [129.240.78.31]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EC29814D4A for ; Wed, 8 Sep 1999 03:02:45 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from des@flood.ping.uio.no) Received: (from des@localhost) by flood.ping.uio.no (8.9.3/8.9.3) id MAA32492; Wed, 8 Sep 1999 12:02:20 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from des) To: Dominic Mitchell Cc: Dag-Erling Smorgrav , Phil Regnauld , Alfred Perlstein , Eric Wayte , Steven Kehlet , freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: anyone have System V jokes? References: <19990908100207.37441@ns.int.ftf.net> <19990908103212.A68320@voodoo.pandhm.co.uk> From: Dag-Erling Smorgrav Date: 08 Sep 1999 12:02:19 +0200 In-Reply-To: Dominic Mitchell's message of "Wed, 8 Sep 1999 10:32:13 +0100" Message-ID: Lines: 19 X-Mailer: Gnus v5.5/Emacs 19.34 Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Dominic Mitchell writes: > 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. Don't blame the design for the shortcomings of the implementation... especially when those shortcomings would take 10 minutes to fix if the vendor bothered to fix them. An enormous advantage of the /etc/rc.d system (at least as implemented in IRIX) is that it makes it trivial to implement a checkbox-list- style UI for enabling / disabling services. Shouldn't be too hard to add dependency information either, so it prevents you from disabling services that are required by other (still enabled) services. DES -- Dag-Erling Smorgrav - des@flood.ping.uio.no To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message