From owner-freebsd-hackers Tue Jun 12 12:11:45 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from hokkshideh.jetcafe.org (hokkshideh.jetcafe.org [205.147.43.4]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5FC3237B405 for ; Tue, 12 Jun 2001 12:11:29 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dave@jetcafe.org) Received: from hokkshideh.jetcafe.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by hokkshideh.jetcafe.org (8.8.8/8.8.5) with ESMTP id MAA00887; Tue, 12 Jun 2001 12:11:25 -0700 (PDT) Message-Id: <200106121911.MAA00887@hokkshideh.jetcafe.org> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.2 06/23/2000 with version: MH 6.8.4 #1[UCI] To: Warner Losh Cc: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: import NetBSD rc system Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Tue, 12 Jun 2001 12:11:24 -0700 From: Dave Hayes Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Warner Losh writes: > It is more modular and easy to expand after the boot. How do > I start nfs on FreeBSD after it boots? Well, you grep it out of > /etc/rc*. Actually, er, I know to start portmapper, mountd, nfsd, etc. This is probably a clue as to why I don't need: /etc/rc.d/d start ;) > It isn't SysV RC style. It is BSD style taken to its logical next > step. All the knobs for this are still in a central location, so you > don't have to make sure you get the hardlinks right. Correct me if I am wrong (as I am quite sure you will). The NetBSD style is shell code to start or stop daemons, sprinkled in lots of little files, which have to exist in at least one (if not several) directories. How is this all in a central location? You'll have to excuse my kneejerk here if I am clueless, more than a hundred times have I seen someone wondering why a service didn't start on linux/solaris/hpux and it turned out that someone put a regular file in a directory that was supposed to have links in it. Being burned by this repeatedly (especially when it's not my originating mistake) is not something I am wanting to see happen with FreeBSD. ------ Dave Hayes - Consultant - Altadena CA, USA - dave@jetcafe.org >>> The opinions expressed above are entirely my own <<< There's only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving and that's your own self. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message