Date: Mon, 25 Sep 1995 22:52:56 -0700 (PDT) From: Julian Elischer <julian@ref.tfs.com> To: patl@asimov.volant.org Cc: terry@lambert.org, gryphon@healer.com, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG, jmb@kryten.atinc.com, peter@taronga.com Subject: Re: ports startup scripts Message-ID: <199509260552.WAA08945@ref.tfs.com> In-Reply-To: <9509260253.AA29658@asimov.volant.org> from "patl@asimov.volant.org" at Sep 25, 95 07:53:15 pm
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The thing about the old Sunos system (/etc/rc) was that every time yu added or subtracted a package you contributed to the entropy in that file.. things got shuffled etc. with the sysV approach you keep the details hidden in the files and the directory is an overview.. I'm sure we can do something similar to both.. the OSF systems (OSF on a PC) I run here use the SYSV approach. It's not bad. slightly complex but it's good having the symbolic links in /sbin/rc3.d pointing to /sbin/init.d it means you can delete the symlink if you don't want it and the directory gets cleaner.. it's easy to se what's going on at a glance. and it's easy to undo..
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