From owner-freebsd-current Tue Jul 11 0: 4:12 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from gateway.posi.net (c1096725-a.smateo1.sfba.home.com [24.20.139.104]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4BEFD37B605; Tue, 11 Jul 2000 00:04:03 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from kbyanc@posi.net) Received: from localhost (kbyanc@localhost) by gateway.posi.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id AAA36401; Tue, 11 Jul 2000 00:08:12 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from kbyanc@posi.net) Date: Tue, 11 Jul 2000 00:08:12 -0700 (PDT) From: Kelly Yancey To: Mikel Cc: Mike Meyer , current@FreeBSD.ORG, cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: etc/rc.d & things... In-Reply-To: <3969CB43.73363414@ocsny.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Mon, 10 Jul 2000, Mikel wrote: > > Kelly Yancey wrote: > > > > > How about rather then separate directories, you prefix the symlink names > > with 'S' for startup scripts and 'K' (for "kill") for shutdown scripts. Then, > > you rename rc.d to rc3.d... > > I like it. It's clean and simple, almost to the point of being elegant. But why > bother adding rc?.d if you are going to right it to handle s or k then the present > home should be fine, no? > It was a reference to how SysV organized it's rc scripts. SysV implements 'run-levels' for which there is a rcX.d for each run-level. The startup/shutdown scripts for a run-level are executed at transitions between levels. In any event, it was a poor attempt at humor on my part. Don't go down this road, read the archives to see why (search for init and runlevels). Kelly -- Kelly Yancey - kbyanc@posi.net - Belmont, CA System Administrator, eGroups.com http://www.egroups.com/ Maintainer, BSD Driver Database http://www.posi.net/freebsd/drivers/ Coordinator, Team FreeBSD http://www.posi.net/freebsd/Team-FreeBSD/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message