Date: Tue, 30 Jun 1998 16:33:13 -0500 From: "Matthew D. Fuller" <fullermd@futuresouth.com> To: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@time.cdrom.com> Cc: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Adding a new user interface to FreeBSD administration Message-ID: <19980630163313.49201@futuresouth.com> In-Reply-To: <5256.899162971@time.cdrom.com>; from Jordan K. Hubbard on Mon, Jun 29, 1998 at 04:29:31PM -0700 References: <19980629162434.A20703@reilly.home> <5256.899162971@time.cdrom.com>
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On Mon, Jun 29, 1998 at 04:29:31PM -0700, Jordan K. Hubbard woke me up to tell me:
>
> linux(enabled) = YES
> linux(doc) = { This variable controls whether linux emulation support
> will be automatically loaded at startup. You can also do it manually
> with the /usr/bin/linux command. }
> linux(exec-command) = "linux > /dev/null 2>&1"
OK, so what's wrong with a simple /etc/rc.conf script that looks
something like:
# Uncomment next line to run mountd (NFS server)
# STARTUP_COMMANDS += mountd
# Command and flags for mountd
mountd_command = "/sbin/mountd -r"
# Uncomment next line to run mailer daemon (default sendmail)
# STARTUP_COMMANDS += mailer
# Command and flags for mailer
mailer_command = "/usr/sbin/sendmail -bd -q30m"
Then rc being something of the like of:
for i in STARTUP_COMMANDS; do
$i_command
done
This is just scribbling down after 30 seconds thought, don't trust my
syntax. But you get the general movement; that leaves you with one file
to edit (maybe add a rc.local to that too, to have a seperate file for
local changes). It makes it simple for an install script for, say, ssh,
to just echo/cat 3 lines onto the end of /etc/rc.local to start it up,
eliminating the /usr/local/etc/rc.d hack/kludge also.
Sure, it ain't perfect, but it's almost elegant! ;)
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