From owner-freebsd-advocacy Sat Nov 28 23:34:05 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id XAA02312 for freebsd-advocacy-outgoing; Sat, 28 Nov 1998 23:34:05 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from iquest3.iquest.net (iquest3.iquest.net [209.43.20.203]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id XAA02307 for ; Sat, 28 Nov 1998 23:34:03 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from toor@y.dyson.net) Received: (qmail 11319 invoked from network); 29 Nov 1998 07:33:53 -0000 Received: from dyson.iquest.net (HELO y.dyson.net) (198.70.144.127) by iquest3.iquest.net with SMTP; 29 Nov 1998 07:33:53 -0000 Received: (from root@localhost) by y.dyson.net (8.9.1/8.9.1) id CAA35884; Sun, 29 Nov 1998 02:33:53 -0500 (EST) Message-Id: <199811290733.CAA35884@y.dyson.net> Subject: Re: Linux to be deployed in Mexican schools; Where was FreeBSD? In-Reply-To: <19981129175648.F456@freebie.lemis.com> from Greg Lehey at "Nov 29, 98 05:56:48 pm" To: grog@lemis.com (Greg Lehey) Date: Sun, 29 Nov 1998 02:33:53 -0500 (EST) Cc: wes@softweyr.com, dyson@iquest.net, tlambert@primenet.com, advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG From: "John S. Dyson" Reply-To: dyson@iquest.net X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL38 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Greg Lehey said: > > OK, I must be missing something, but what does System V init have that > makes it easier to start up or shut down an application? /etc/rc*.d > isn't the problem: that's a question of scripts, not init. > Init supports runmodes (good or bad -- I don't care -- if one doesn't like it, then don't use them.) SysV init has an established set of standards for usage of startup/shutdown files. It doesn't solve ALL problems, but moves forward, other than just staying idle. -- John | Never try to teach a pig to sing, dyson@iquest.net | it makes one look stupid jdyson@nc.com | and it irritates the pig. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-advocacy" in the body of the message