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From: Jeremy Chadwick <koitsu@FreeBSD.org>
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On Wed, Aug 06, 2008 at 07:14:51PM -0400, wbentley@futurecis.com wrote:
> To who it may concern,
> 
>    I am A FreeBSD administrator as well as a Solaris Administrator. I use
> BSD at home but Solaris at work. I love both OS's but I would like to
> increase the administrative capability of FreeBSD.
> 
>    In Solaris 10 the Services Management Facility (SMF) was introduced.
> Basically what it does, is take all the rc.d scripts and puts them into
> a database to manage. Everything is converted to XML and two basic
> commands (svcs and svcadm) are used to manage everything.

I highly recommend you and anyone advocating the use of XML for such
things read the following whitepaper/study, in full:

http://www.cs.kent.ac.uk/pubs/2004/2102/content.pdf

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