Date: Tue, 23 Oct 2001 21:44:56 -0700 From: "David O'Brien" <dev-null@NUXI.com> To: Jan Grant <Jan.Grant@bristol.ac.uk> Cc: Guido van Rooij <guido@gvr.org>, Dag-Erling Smorgrav <des@ofug.org>, Will Andrews <will@physics.purdue.edu>, arch <arch@FreeBSD.org> Subject: Re: Scoping /etc/rc.d/* status Was: New rc.d init script roadmap Message-ID: <20011023214456.A81264@dragon.nuxi.com> In-Reply-To: <Pine.GSO.4.31.0110231607470.24903-100000@mail.ilrt.bris.ac.uk>; from Jan.Grant@bristol.ac.uk on Tue, Oct 23, 2001 at 04:13:09PM %2B0100 References: <20011022154615.A42579@gvr.gvr.org> <Pine.GSO.4.31.0110231607470.24903-100000@mail.ilrt.bris.ac.uk>
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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
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