From owner-freebsd-hackers Tue Jun 15 19:54:58 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from mail.rdc1.sfba.home.com (ha1.rdc1.sfba.home.com [24.0.0.66]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 64D691549A for ; Tue, 15 Jun 1999 19:54:53 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from adsharma@c62443-a.frmt1.sfba.home.com) Received: from c62443-a.frmt1.sfba.home.com ([24.0.69.165]) by mail.rdc1.sfba.home.com (InterMail v4.01.01.00 201-229-111) with ESMTP id <19990616025453.XEUJ8807.mail.rdc1.sfba.home.com@c62443-a.frmt1.sfba.home.com>; Tue, 15 Jun 1999 19:54:53 -0700 Received: (from adsharma@localhost) by c62443-a.frmt1.sfba.home.com (8.8.7/8.8.7) id TAA01731; Tue, 15 Jun 1999 19:54:52 -0700 To: Mark Newton Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: [Call for review] init(8): new feature References: <199906152344.JAA10155@gizmo.internode.com.au> From: Arun Sharma Mime-Version: 1.0 (generated by tm-edit 7.106) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Date: 15 Jun 1999 19:54:51 -0700 In-Reply-To: Mark Newton's message of "Wed, 16 Jun 1999 09:14:03 +0930 (CST)" Message-ID: Lines: 21 X-Mailer: Gnus v5.5/Emacs 20.3 Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Mark Newton writes: > Arun Sharma wrote: > > > While we're on the init topic, is there any strong feeling here about > > BSD /etc/rc* scripts Vs SysV ? The nice thing about SysV initscripts > > is the ability to start and stop any service that I like. > > That's fine -- there are lots of ways to start and stop any service you > like without involving SysV init. Like sending a signal to the process providing the service ? The problem with that approach is, the signal you send and the clean up you do is non-standard for each service and having a standard interface: /etc/rc.d/ stop|start|restart makes it standard. -Arun To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message