From owner-freebsd-arch Fri Mar 30 10:28:27 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Received: from bsdconspiracy.net (bsdconspiracy.net [208.187.122.220]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1630637B71A for ; Fri, 30 Mar 2001 10:28:25 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from wes@softweyr.com) Received: from zaphod.softweyr.com ([204.68.178.35] helo=softweyr.com ident=wes) by bsdconspiracy.net with esmtp (Exim 3.14 #1) id 14j2wN-00003J-00; Fri, 30 Mar 2001 10:44:03 -0700 Message-ID: <3AC4CFCA.5BEC078E@softweyr.com> Date: Fri, 30 Mar 2001 11:26:18 -0700 From: Wes Peters Organization: Softweyr LLC X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.75 [en] (X11; U; Linux 2.2.12 i386) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Jack Rusher Cc: Neil Blakey-Milner , Michael Lucas , "litos2001@libero.it" , arch@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Startup scripts a la NetBSD References: <20010330082114.A75059@blackhelicopters.org> <20010330153501.B57394@rapier.smartspace.co.za> <3AC4B808.9EB5806B@integratus.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Jack Rusher wrote: > > Neil Blakey-Milner wrote: > > > > pretty arbitrary to do. It shouldn't take more than a few hours to get > > the basics going. The specifics get a bit more difficult, and it's > > quite a bit of manual work to get it to actually boot somewhat cleanly. > > It seems like a nit picky job, but not an overly difficult one. Do we > know that people want this? Someone suggested a more SYSV like startup > system as a port, which sounds much harder to me. I've done a lot of work like this lately, the DoBox starts from an rc.d system. Ours is a bit complicated, since we handle dynamic network reconfiguration via the rc.d files as well. I'll willing to help where I can. -- Where am I, and what am I doing in this handbasket? Wes Peters wes@softweyr.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-arch" in the body of the message