From owner-freebsd-hackers  Wed Jun 13  1:20:22 2001
Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org
Received: from cs.huji.ac.il (cs.huji.ac.il [132.65.16.10])
	by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A1E4837B40D
	for <freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org>; Wed, 13 Jun 2001 01:20:08 -0700 (PDT)
	(envelope-from danny@cs.huji.ac.il)
Received: from sexta.cs.huji.ac.il ([132.65.16.13] ident=exim)
	by cs.huji.ac.il with esmtp (Exim 3.22 #1)
	id 15A5si-0000sS-00; Wed, 13 Jun 2001 11:20:04 +0300
Received: from localhost
	([127.0.0.1] helo=sexta.cs.huji.ac.il ident=danny)
	by sexta.cs.huji.ac.il with esmtp (Exim 3.15 #1)
	id 15A5sh-000517-00; Wed, 13 Jun 2001 11:20:03 +0300
X-Mailer: exmh version 2.2 06/23/2000 with nmh-0.24
To: Warner Losh <imp@harmony.village.org>
Cc: Sheldon Hearn <sheldonh@starjuice.net>,
	freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject: Re: Plan to import NetBSD rc system 
In-Reply-To: Message from Warner Losh <imp@harmony.village.org> 
   of "Tue, 12 Jun 2001 10:42:26 MDT." <200106121642.f5CGgQV94837@harmony.village.org> 
Mime-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii
Date: Wed, 13 Jun 2001 11:20:03 +0300
From: Danny Braniss <danny@cs.huji.ac.il>
Message-Id: <E15A5sh-000517-00@sexta.cs.huji.ac.il>
Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG
Precedence: bulk
List-ID: <freebsd-hackers.FreeBSD.ORG>
List-Archive: <http://docs.freebsd.org/mail/> (Web Archive)
List-Help: <mailto:majordomo?subject=help> (List Instructions)
List-Subscribe: <mailto:majordomo?subject=subscribe%20freebsd-hackers>
List-Unsubscribe: <mailto:majordomo?subject=unsubscribe%20freebsd-hackers>
X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG

few points to add/concider:

I share the /usr/local among many machines, so /usr/local/etc/rc.d is becoming
'problematic', rc.conf should be involved in the decission to run xxx.sh 
start/stop

on other platforms, i've modified rc to run rc.`hostname` if such file exists.
this little trick saved the day many times - i would dump|restore the root
partition onto another host, and reboot.

having to manage many hosts, it's becoming important to centralize some of
the configuration data (Nis/Hesiod based info). I configure amd that is
heavely used here, via hesiod.

having experienced rc since V6, i have seen some nice ideas and 01some 
22horrible
99ones, FreeBSD's so far looks the best! true, i haven't seen NetBSD, and i 
will
asap.

my 5cents,
	danny



To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org
with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message