From owner-freebsd-hackers Tue Jun 12 14:11:49 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from mcp.csh.rit.edu (mcp.csh.rit.edu [129.21.60.9]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A2B5137B401 for ; Tue, 12 Jun 2001 14:11:39 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jon@csh.rit.edu) Received: from fury.csh.rit.edu (fury.csh.rit.edu [129.21.60.5]) by mcp.csh.rit.edu (Postfix) with ESMTP id AD73B1304; Tue, 12 Jun 2001 17:11:38 -0400 (EDT) Received: by fury.csh.rit.edu (Postfix, from userid 37404) id AEF8D2E3EC; Tue, 12 Jun 2001 17:11:37 -0400 (EDT) Date: Tue, 12 Jun 2001 17:11:37 -0400 From: Jon Parise To: Dave Hayes Cc: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: import NetBSD rc system Message-ID: <20010612171137.H16850@csh.rit.edu> Mail-Followup-To: Dave Hayes , freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG References: <200106121911.MAA00887@hokkshideh.jetcafe.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.12i In-Reply-To: <200106121911.MAA00887@hokkshideh.jetcafe.org>; from dave@jetcafe.org on Tue, Jun 12, 2001 at 12:11:24PM -0700 X-Operating-System: SunOS 5.8 (sun4u) 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 On Tue, Jun 12, 2001 at 12:11:24PM -0700, Dave Hayes wrote: > > 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? The scripts only exist in one location: /etc/rc.d There are no links involved with this system (unless of course you feel like putting them there yourself, but that's a separate matter). -- Jon Parise (jon@csh.rit.edu) . Rochester Inst. of Technology http://www.csh.rit.edu/~jon/ : Computer Science House Member To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message