From owner-freebsd-hackers Sun Nov 29 14:19:58 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id OAA09433 for freebsd-hackers-outgoing; Sun, 29 Nov 1998 14:19:58 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from cam.grad.kiev.ua (KievglavArhit-UTC-28k8.ukrtel.net [195.5.25.54]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id OAA09428 for ; Sun, 29 Nov 1998 14:19:54 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from Ruslan@Shevchenko.Kiev.UA) Received: from gvinpin.grad.kiev.ua (root@gvinpin [10.0.0.32]) by cam.grad.kiev.ua (8.8.8/8.8.5) with ESMTP id AAA26314; Mon, 30 Nov 1998 00:12:53 +0200 (EET) Received: from Shevchenko.Kiev.UA ([10.0.1.99]) by gvinpin.grad.kiev.ua (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id AAA24769; Mon, 30 Nov 1998 00:17:27 +0200 Message-ID: <3661E443.5E392E32@Shevchenko.Kiev.UA> Date: Mon, 30 Nov 1998 00:18:11 +0000 From: Ruslan Shevchenko Reply-To: rssh@grad.kiev.ua X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.07 [en] (X11; I; FreeBSD 3.0-CURRENT i386) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Adrian Filipi-Martin CC: Greg Lehey , dyson@iquest.net, wes@softweyr.com, tlambert@primenet.com, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: System V init (was: Linux to be deployed in Mexican schools; Where was FreeBSD?) References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=koi8-r Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG A I still don't understand why this has become an issue again. > There is /usr/local/etc/rc.d. The scrtips are called with "start" and > using rc.shutdown, you can make sure they are called with "stop". What > more does a third party software vendor need? They certainly cannot care > about how basic system functions are managed. > becouse services are depend from each other. for example, let you have database ans SNMP interface daemon for it. SNMP interface daemon start "after" databse, learm PID of database from pid-file of one. Now you want to restart database, you call start and stop scripts, and magically you SNMP interface don't work. (You can say, that this is bad practice, but really, each big software product have big set of kluges, as one) > > Adrian > -- > [ adrian@ubergeeks.com -- Ubergeeks Consulting -- http://www.ubergeeks.com/ ] > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message