From owner-freebsd-security Wed Jul 10 5:24:35 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-security@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3E23D37B400 for ; Wed, 10 Jul 2002 05:24:33 -0700 (PDT) Received: from blackhelicopters.org (geburah.blackhelicopters.org [209.69.178.18]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9702F43E09 for ; Wed, 10 Jul 2002 05:24:32 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mwlucas@blackhelicopters.org) Received: from blackhelicopters.org (mwlucas@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by blackhelicopters.org (8.12.4/8.12.4) with ESMTP id g6ACOVFg073853; Wed, 10 Jul 2002 08:24:31 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from mwlucas@blackhelicopters.org) Received: (from mwlucas@localhost) by blackhelicopters.org (8.12.4/8.12.4/Submit) id g6ACOU9j073852; Wed, 10 Jul 2002 08:24:30 -0400 (EDT) Date: Wed, 10 Jul 2002 08:24:30 -0400 From: Michael Lucas To: Andrew McNaughton Cc: "Matthew N. Dodd" , security@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Time to look put more resources into FreeSSH ? Message-ID: <20020710082430.A73733@blackhelicopters.org> References: <20020625035702.F95270-100000@sasami.jurai.net> <20020625200524.O69343-100000@a2> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <20020625200524.O69343-100000@a2>; from andrew@scoop.co.nz on Tue, Jun 25, 2002 at 08:10:54PM +1200 Sender: owner-freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Tue, Jun 25, 2002 at 08:10:54PM +1200, Andrew McNaughton wrote: > system, I like having the /usr/local/etc/rc.d scripts on hand. Why > doesn't FreeBSD make these scripts exist in a stand alone form for things > that get installed with the system? Is there a philosophy behind it, or > is it just historical? The problem is that many system daemons have dependencies on other daemons. It's not that easy. This is coming with RCng, in FreeBSD 5.x (NetBSD import). You'll be able to do, basically: cd /etc/rc.d/ ./sshd stop && ./sshd start ==ml -- Michael Lucas mwlucas@FreeBSD.org, mwlucas@BlackHelicopters.org http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/q/Big_Scary_Daemons Absolute BSD: http://www.nostarch.com/abs_bsd.htm To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-security" in the body of the message