Date: Thu, 9 Sep 1999 00:26:35 +0000 (GMT) From: Terry Lambert <tlambert@primenet.com> To: des@flood.ping.uio.no (Dag-Erling Smorgrav) Cc: Dom.Mitchell@palmerharvey.co.uk, des@flood.ping.uio.no, regnauld@ftf.net, bright@wintelcom.net, ewayte@pegasus.cc.ucf.edu, kehlet@techfuel.com, freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: anyone have System V jokes? Message-ID: <199909090026.RAA06872@usr02.primenet.com> In-Reply-To: <xzp1zc9lo0k.fsf@flood.ping.uio.no> from "Dag-Erling Smorgrav" at Sep 8, 99 12:02:19 pm
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> Dominic Mitchell <Dom.Mitchell@palmerharvey.co.uk> writes: > > Well, I don't know about IRIX, but I have definite problems with the > > Solaris implementation. For instance, because of the way that sun ship > > it, you can't "just turn off inetd". Half of the scrips don't have a > > stop section. In short, nice idea, but a pain to work with. > > Don't blame the design for the shortcomings of the implementation... > especially when those shortcomings would take 10 minutes to fix if the > vendor bothered to fix them. > > An enormous advantage of the /etc/rc.d system (at least as implemented > in IRIX) is that it makes it trivial to implement a checkbox-list- > style UI for enabling / disabling services. Shouldn't be too hard to > add dependency information either, so it prevents you from disabling > services that are required by other (still enabled) services. Yeah, as in "man tsort". Terry Lambert terry@lambert.org --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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