From owner-freebsd-current Thu Mar 23 09:20:36 1995 Return-Path: current-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) id JAA15255 for current-outgoing; Thu, 23 Mar 1995 09:20:36 -0800 Received: from brasil.moneng.mei.com (brasil.moneng.mei.com [151.186.20.4]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) with SMTP id JAA15246 for ; Thu, 23 Mar 1995 09:20:35 -0800 Received: by brasil.moneng.mei.com (4.1/SMI-4.1) id AA13713; Thu, 23 Mar 95 11:18:46 CST From: Joe Greco Message-Id: <9503231718.AA13713@brasil.moneng.mei.com> Subject: Re: /etc/rc ordering hosed To: jkh@freefall.cdrom.com (Jordan K. Hubbard) Date: Thu, 23 Mar 1995 11:18:46 -0600 (CST) Cc: bde@zeta.org.au, current@FreeBSD.org In-Reply-To: <14443.795977395@freefall.cdrom.com> from "Jordan K. Hubbard" at Mar 23, 95 08:49:55 am X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4beta PL9] Content-Type: text Content-Length: 1480 Sender: current-owner@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > Where would you suggest we start it? > > I'm not at all adverse to suggestions here, folks, this IS a group > project and if you don't like something I'm doing or have a better > suggestion then please, SPEAK UP! > > Rod certainly hasn't been shy in doing so and I've already responded > to quite a bit of his feedback by making changes. All I know is that > /etc has been an evil mess for a long time and I'm finally trying to > do something about it. I'm not egotistical enough to think that > everything I'm doing is necessarily the *right* thing, but I do know > that change where /etc is concerned is good. If I only start the ball > rolling on this and then hand off to someone with more "vision" of how > /etc should work then I'll be only too happy - really! > > Without triggering the old SYSV rc vs BSD rc debate, of course! > We already *know* where that one leads! :-) Hi Jordan, I would like to suggest that you at least glance at what Sun has done with SunOS. Their strategy, while perhaps not perfect, did manage to address a significant number of concerns simultaneously. A Sun can boot diskless, dataless, /usrless, et al. If needed, I could provide you with access to this information - but I suspect you already have access somewhere.. ... Joe ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Joe Greco - Systems Administrator jgreco@ns.sol.net Solaria Public Access UNIX - Milwaukee, WI 414/342-4847