Date: Tue, 17 Nov 1998 20:23:01 -0500 (EST) From: Garrett Wollman <wollman@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu> To: John Fieber <jfieber@indiana.edu> Cc: ADRIAN Filipi-Martin <adrian@ubergeeks.com>, Nik Clayton <nik@nothing-going-on.demon.co.uk>, current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: /etc/rc.d, and changes to /etc/rc? Message-ID: <199811180123.UAA28352@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.05.9811171921410.12652-100000@fallout.campusview.indiana.edu> References: <Pine.BSF.3.96.981117190738.925F-100000@lorax.ubergeeks.com> <Pine.BSF.4.05.9811171921410.12652-100000@fallout.campusview.indiana.edu>
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<<On Tue, 17 Nov 1998 19:24:22 -0500 (EST), John Fieber <jfieber@indiana.edu> said: > But I sure wish they would consistently take 'start', 'stop' and > 'restart' arguments...most that come with ports are only good for > launching. Yes, the ports are almost all broken -- that's one of my biggest beefs. When you consider how trivial it usually is: #!/bin/sh case "$1" in stop) killall postmaster;; *) rm -f /tmp/.s.PGSQL.* su -l postgres -c 'exec postmaster -S -o -F >$HOME/errlog' & echo -n ' pgsql';; esac ...there's really no excuse for not doing it right. -GAWollman -- Garrett A. Wollman | O Siem / We are all family / O Siem / We're all the same wollman@lcs.mit.edu | O Siem / The fires of freedom Opinions not those of| Dance in the burning flame MIT, LCS, CRS, or NSA| - Susan Aglukark and Chad Irschick To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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