From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed Nov 18 07:37:22 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id HAA20127 for freebsd-hackers-outgoing; Wed, 18 Nov 1998 07:37:22 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from echonyc.com (echonyc.com [198.67.15.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id HAA20122 for ; Wed, 18 Nov 1998 07:37:21 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from benedict@echonyc.com) Received: from localhost by echonyc.com (8.9.1/8.9.1) with SMTP id KAA26216; Wed, 18 Nov 1998 10:34:00 -0500 (EST) Date: Wed, 18 Nov 1998 10:34:00 -0500 (EST) From: Snob Art Genre Reply-To: ben@rosengart.com To: Gary Kline cc: Nik Clayton , hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: /etc/rc.d, and changes to /etc/rc? In-Reply-To: <19981117144058.A27582@thought.org> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Tue, 17 Nov 1998, Gary Kline wrote: > 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. I agree strongly. Sometimes sending something a signal is not all that needs to be done to kill it cleanly. A mechanism for glue logic can be valuable. I have just recently started adminning Solaris, after a couple of years only using various BSDs, and the start and stop scripts are one of my favorite features. Ben "You have your mind on computers, it seems." To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message