From owner-freebsd-arch Tue Oct 23 21:45:50 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Received: from dragon.nuxi.com (trang.nuxi.com [66.92.13.169]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3F0BE37B403 for ; Tue, 23 Oct 2001 21:45:48 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from obrien@localhost) by dragon.nuxi.com (8.11.6/8.11.1) id f9O4iuU83581; Tue, 23 Oct 2001 21:44:56 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from obrien) Date: Tue, 23 Oct 2001 21:44:56 -0700 From: "David O'Brien" To: Jan Grant Cc: Guido van Rooij , Dag-Erling Smorgrav , Will Andrews , arch Subject: Re: Scoping /etc/rc.d/* status Was: New rc.d init script roadmap Message-ID: <20011023214456.A81264@dragon.nuxi.com> Reply-To: arch@FreeBSD.org References: <20011022154615.A42579@gvr.gvr.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: ; from Jan.Grant@bristol.ac.uk on Tue, Oct 23, 2001 at 04:13:09PM +0100 X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 5.0-CURRENT Organization: The NUXI BSD group X-Pgp-Rsa-Fingerprint: B7 4D 3E E9 11 39 5F A3 90 76 5D 69 58 D9 98 7A X-Pgp-Rsa-Keyid: 1024/34F9F9D5 Sender: owner-freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Tue, Oct 23, 2001 at 04:13:09PM +0100, Jan Grant wrote: > A word about checking status. It seems to me that there are increasing > complications in the situations rc.d scripts might be expected to cope > with: ... > We clearly want to cope with at least (1), and would like scripts to > cope in most situations with at least (2) and (3) reasonably gracefully. > What we can guarantee for (4) is little or nothing in the general case. We clearly just want to get the NetBSD bits port as-is so we can gain experience with them. Right now is not the time to be redesigning them. -- -- David (obrien@FreeBSD.org) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-arch" in the body of the message