From owner-freebsd-hackers Tue Feb 2 16:28:03 1999 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id QAA07129 for freebsd-hackers-outgoing; Tue, 2 Feb 1999 16:28:03 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from peach.ocn.ne.jp (peach.ocn.ne.jp [210.145.254.87]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id QAA07087 for ; Tue, 2 Feb 1999 16:27:58 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dcs@newsguy.com) Received: from newsguy.com by peach.ocn.ne.jp (8.9.1a/OCN) id JAA27338; Wed, 3 Feb 1999 09:27:40 +0900 (JST) Message-ID: <36B79273.C201B5AD@newsguy.com> Date: Wed, 03 Feb 1999 09:04:03 +0900 From: "Daniel C. Sobral" X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.5 [en] (Win98; I) X-Accept-Language: pt-BR,ja MIME-Version: 1.0 To: David Wolfskill CC: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: more modular rc/init/uninit system... References: <199902021752.JAA16952@pau-amma.whistle.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG David Wolfskill wrote: > > >Yes, which could be problematic to do automatically :) > > That is one respect in which the SysV approach is relatively easy: by > blacing a (link to the) script in an appropriate directory with an > appropriate name, it gets started/stopped at a (relatively) well-defined > point in the run-level change. 1) Links? That's awful. Configuration information should be put in a FILE. 2) Run levels are flawed. They are "one-dimensional", and the problem they have to solve is not. (Refer to PPP vs Network problem). 3) It makes something simple (specifying a dependency) difficult, by having the manager figure out the dependency graph and needlessly introduce opportunity for inconsistency (like startup/shutdown scripts not matched). This is precisely what should NOT be implemented, imho. -- Daniel C. Sobral (8-DCS) dcs@newsguy.com She just looked at him over the rotating pencil like, how slow can a mammal be and still have respiratory functions? To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message