From owner-freebsd-chat Wed Sep 8 17:27:55 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from smtp04.primenet.com (smtp04.primenet.com [206.165.6.134]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 78AAD14D4B for ; Wed, 8 Sep 1999 17:27:52 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from tlambert@usr02.primenet.com) Received: (from daemon@localhost) by smtp04.primenet.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) id RAA19079; Wed, 8 Sep 1999 17:26:18 -0700 (MST) Received: from usr02.primenet.com(206.165.6.202) via SMTP by smtp04.primenet.com, id smtpdAAAN4aGmL; Wed Sep 8 17:26:15 1999 Received: (from tlambert@localhost) by usr02.primenet.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) id RAA06872; Wed, 8 Sep 1999 17:26:35 -0700 (MST) From: Terry Lambert Message-Id: <199909090026.RAA06872@usr02.primenet.com> Subject: Re: anyone have System V jokes? To: des@flood.ping.uio.no (Dag-Erling Smorgrav) Date: Thu, 9 Sep 1999 00:26:35 +0000 (GMT) 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 In-Reply-To: from "Dag-Erling Smorgrav" at Sep 8, 99 12:02:19 pm X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL25] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org > Dominic Mitchell 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