Date: Mon, 01 Feb 1999 22:32:42 -0700 From: Wes Peters <wes@softweyr.com> To: "Daniel O'Connor" <doconnor@gsoft.com.au> Cc: David Wolfskill <dhw@whistle.com>, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: more modular rc/init/uninit system... Message-ID: <36B68DFA.C14D590E@softweyr.com> References: <XFMail.990202123155.doconnor@gsoft.com.au>
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Daniel O'Connor wrote:
>
> On 01-Feb-99 David Wolfskill wrote:
> > So switch the logic: the "foo" script should be able to tell a
> > sufficiently interested inquirer what services it depends on.
> >
> > If some of those have additional dependencies... well, I think we know
> > how to do transitive closure on such dependency graphs.
>
> Hmmm.. how about getting the actual knobs committed and worry about the dependancy stuff
> later? :)
>
> The problem with this stuff seems to be that everyone gets stuck on the 'ooh, the
> dependancy stuff will suck' while not realising that 80% of the time it won't be needed..
The dependency stuff is the only reason for doing this; it's the shaft
the knobs attach to. It's been pointed out many times before that doing
it without the "dependency stuff" is of little value.
> Perhaps we could also start making the files written into $PREFIX/etc/rc.d follow this
> standard as a start, and then do the /etc/rc* stuff.
Now that's a sparkling idea. I'm not sure we'll need the $PREFIX/etc/rc.d
directories anymore, though, they were mostly a hack caused by our severe
lack of an /etc/rc.d directory. I guess it won't add much to the complexity
to retain them, but it won't really work to do it partially. I could, for
instance, write a script for my Perforce server in a couple of minutes, but
since it depends on "network", it's just not really going to work without
the system stuff, too.
--
"Where am I, and what am I doing in this handbasket?"
Wes Peters Softweyr LLC
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