From owner-freebsd-current Wed Oct 25 4: 0:14 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from smtp05.primenet.com (smtp05.primenet.com [206.165.6.135]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2D8D737B479 for ; Wed, 25 Oct 2000 04:00:12 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from daemon@localhost) by smtp05.primenet.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) id EAA09165; Wed, 25 Oct 2000 04:00:40 -0700 (MST) Received: from usr02.primenet.com(206.165.6.202) via SMTP by smtp05.primenet.com, id smtpdAAAKzaO3r; Wed Oct 25 04:00:34 2000 Received: (from tlambert@localhost) by usr02.primenet.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) id DAA20067; Wed, 25 Oct 2000 03:59:59 -0700 (MST) From: Terry Lambert Message-Id: <200010251059.DAA20067@usr02.primenet.com> Subject: Re: new rc.network6 and rc.firewall6 To: bv@bilver.wjv.com Date: Wed, 25 Oct 2000 10:59:58 +0000 (GMT) Cc: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: <20001024181756.A2407@wjv.com> from "Bill Vermillion" at Oct 24, 2000 06:17:56 PM X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.5 PL2] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > This was my thought also. I put the TCP/IP scripts at 99 to make > sure that any slow network initialization is done. > > Since they all start with S - for example S99tcp - moving it > to s99tcp will keep it from starting, and the Knn in the same > directory is used to stop things when moving from that run level. > > It's one of the things I like about the Sys V /etc/rc.d > directory structure, as you can easily fine tune it to fit your > needs. Just a look at the files and you know the order. The primary reason I'm aware of is to support transitioning between run levels, where some of the stuff in the previous run level is left running. For the increasingly anal security types, run levels would let you support booting without a network, until after you had battened down the hatches. I'd never use it, in normal use, but what the heck... Terry Lambert terry@lambert.org --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message