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From: peter@taronga.com (Peter da Silva)
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Subject: Re: ports startup scripts
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Date: Mon, 25 Sep 1995 22:47:08 -0500 (CDT)
In-Reply-To: <199509251417.KAA12111@healer.com> from "Coranth Gryphon" at Sep 25, 95 10:17:46 am
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> 	1) Explicit (complex) numbering in the single directory

Experience shows that the parenthetical (complex) is just not true.

> 	2) Mirrors of the "init.d" directory into other directories "rcN.d"
> 		with explicit numbering in those

This is nice.

> 	3) Script to  run from that directory  to control order.

That's where we are now.

> 	4) Control file.

That's identical to #3.

> #2 - You get whole directories of symlinks. Yuk. Lots of headaches.

A name in a file is a symbolic link, too. Except it's harder to add.

> #4 Works very simply. Ports can add one line to a config file,

And where pray tell do they add the line? At the end? Then you might as
well go back to #1 except now they'll be in random order. And anywhere
else just doesn't bear thinking about.

> Why complicate things?

Dependencies on startup order.