From owner-freebsd-hackers Mon Jun 11 20:13:39 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from mail.viasoft.com.cn (unknown [61.153.1.177]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5194337B409 for ; Mon, 11 Jun 2001 20:13:20 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from bsddiy@163.net) Received: from William ([192.168.1.98]) by mail.viasoft.com.cn (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id LAA17563; Tue, 12 Jun 2001 11:13:14 +0800 Date: Tue, 12 Jun 2001 11:24:20 +0800 From: David Xu X-Mailer: The Bat! (v1.48f) Personal Reply-To: bsddiy@163.net Organization: Viasoft X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Message-ID: <1138668054.20010612112420@163.net> To: Matt Dillon Cc: Will Andrews , Andrew Hesford , Warner Losh , Mark Santcroos , Doug Barton , Subject: Re[2]: import NetBSD rc system In-reply-To: <200106120305.f5C35Ri37415@earth.backplane.com> References: <200106111854.f5BIsX728995@earth.backplane.com> <20010611174717.A77956@laptop.6bone.nl> <1795096378.20010611154930@163.net> <3B2484EA.B1F04812@DougBarton.net> <200106111800.f5BI0il25446@billy-club.village.org> <200106111854.f5BIsX728995@earth.backplane.com> <200106111856.f5BIu8V39651@harmony.village.org> <20010611203749.D24399@core.usrlib.org> <20010611205158.J23562@bohr.physics.purdue.edu> <200106120305.f5C35Ri37415@earth.backplane.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Hello Matt, Tuesday, June 12, 2001, 11:05:27 AM, you wrote: MD> : MD> :On Mon, Jun 11, 2001 at 08:37:49PM -0500, Andrew Hesford (ajh3@usrlib.org) wrote: :>> New "modules"? Isn't that just the same as /usr/local/etc/rc.d/ ? I side :>> with Mr. Dillon, I hope things stay the way they are. MD> : MD> :You acted rashly. It's like /usr/local/etc/rc.d, only it becomes MD> :extended to the base system, so that we can have /etc/rc.d/* MD> :{stop,start,restart,*} for all the daemons. It makes taking care MD> :of our base system daemons easier. MD> : MD> :-- MD> :wca MD> All I care about is /etc/rc.conf ... I like the idea of splitting MD> the various other rc files into pieces as long as I can control them MD> all from /etc/rc.conf. If it's extensible that's even better! MD> What I really hate is the SysV/Linux/Solaris style of rc.d configuration MD> directories where you create/maintain softlinks in specially named MD> directories (named after the run level) to a master set of MD> startup files. Blech. Yuch. Ptooey! MD> -Matt It seems it fits your need, it has a rc.conf file to control whole rc system and has a rc.d directory but havn't to maintain symbol links. SysV has several run levels, it has to have many symbol links, BSD hasn't. -- David Xu To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message