Date: Mon, 01 Feb 1999 18:24:59 -0700 From: Wes Peters <wes@softweyr.com> To: David Wolfskill <dhw@whistle.com> Cc: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: more modular rc/init/uninit system... Message-ID: <36B653EB.AEEA99AA@softweyr.com> References: <199902012228.OAA12331@pau-amma.whistle.com>
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David Wolfskill wrote:
>
> Daniel C. Sobral muttered:
>
> >Yeah, and having to change my ppp dial on demand script everytime I
> >add something that depends on it. Scripts shouldn't have to be
> >changed. That's the main benefit of FreeBSD's rc.conf.
If you're using user-mode PPP, you certainly wouldn't have to change
the script, just which target you call in the PPP configuration.
> So switch the logic: the "foo" script should be able to tell a
> sufficiently interested inquirer what services it depends on.
I thought this was obvious, thus the long discussion about tools to
manage dependency graphs.
> If some of those have additional dependencies... well, I think we know
> how to do transitive closure on such dependency graphs.
Even if "we" don't, tsort does. Ain't UNIX wunnerful?
--
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