Date: Wed, 18 Nov 1998 10:11:03 +0100 (MET) From: Nick Hibma <nick.hibma@jrc.it> To: Gary Kline <kline@thought.org> Cc: Nik Clayton <nik@nothing-going-on.demon.co.uk>, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: /etc/rc.d, and changes to /etc/rc? Message-ID: <Pine.GSO.3.95q.981118100915.8084K-100000@elect8> In-Reply-To: <19981117144058.A27582@thought.org>
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> > daemons, tweaking /etc/rc* to use these scripts instead ]
> >
> > > What are people's thoughts on doing the same thing to the base system?
> I'm surprised to hear this. I'd say go with it. The
> differences between BSD and the SYSV rc files|directories
> is one of the most significant differences between the two
> models.
>
> Your ideas would be a win-win.
More strongly if the template looks like:
<init>
case <bla> in
stop) killall proggie
;;
*) startall proggie
;;
esac
instead of the way Solaris does, where {start|stop} is _required_.
Nick
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