From owner-freebsd-current Tue Nov 17 17:23:34 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id RAA27689 for freebsd-current-outgoing; Tue, 17 Nov 1998 17:23:34 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu (khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu [18.24.4.193]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id RAA27684 for ; Tue, 17 Nov 1998 17:23:30 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from wollman@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu) Received: (from wollman@localhost) by khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu (8.9.1/8.9.1) id UAA28352; Tue, 17 Nov 1998 20:23:01 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from wollman) Date: Tue, 17 Nov 1998 20:23:01 -0500 (EST) From: Garrett Wollman Message-Id: <199811180123.UAA28352@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu> To: John Fieber Cc: ADRIAN Filipi-Martin , Nik Clayton , current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: /etc/rc.d, and changes to /etc/rc? In-Reply-To: References: Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG < 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