Date: Wed, 18 Nov 1998 09:37:40 +1030 From: Leigh Hart <hart@at.dotat.com> To: Alfred Perlstein <bright@hotjobs.com> Cc: Nik Clayton <nik@nothing-going-on.demon.co.uk>, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: /etc/rc.d, and changes to /etc/rc? Message-ID: <199811172307.JAA18179@at.dotat.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 17 Nov 1998 16:37:07 CDT." <Pine.BSF.4.05.9811171633530.2757-100000@bright.fx.genx.net>
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Hi Alfred, Alfred Perlstein <bright@hotjobs.com> wrote: > On Tue, 17 Nov 1998, Nik Clayton wrote: > > > On Sun, Nov 15, 1998 at 11:59:38PM +0000, Nik Clayton wrote: > > [ Creating /etc/rc.d, populating with scripts to start/stop system > > daemons, tweaking /etc/rc* to use these scripts instead ] > > > If there are no more comments by Thursday I'll take it as tacit agreement, > > and go ahead. I'll do sendmail first. > > From what i've seen 90% of these scripts wind up being broken > replacements for 'killall', that would stink. Agreed. > If they become something like: > kill `cat /...../prog.pid` > > that would be interesting and potentially useful. Indeed - nothing worse than killing the wrong program. > although killall <prog> is usually easier to type than > /etc/init.d/<prog> kill And far more dangerous on a production system - and Nik - can I suggest you also implement the scripts as start|restart|stop rather than just start|stop as far as arguments go! Cheers Leigh -- | "By the time they had diminished | Leigh Hart, <hart@dotat.com> | | from 50 to 8, the other dwarves | Dotat Communications Pty Ltd | | began to suspect 'Hungry' ..." | GPO Box 487 Adelaide SA 5001 | | -- Gary Larson, "The Far Side" | http://www.dotat.com/hart/ | To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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