From owner-freebsd-hackers Fri Nov 27 02:55:33 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id CAA07968 for freebsd-hackers-outgoing; Fri, 27 Nov 1998 02:55:33 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from smtp4.nwnexus.com (smtp4.nwnexus.com [206.63.63.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id CAA07963 for ; Fri, 27 Nov 1998 02:55:31 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from wrsomsky@halcyon.com) Received: from gramarye (evt-lx100-ip24.nwnexus.net [204.57.235.24]) by smtp4.nwnexus.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id CAA23925; Fri, 27 Nov 1998 02:54:41 -0800 (PST) Received: (from wrsomsky@localhost) by gramarye (8.9.1/8.8.8) id CAA02161; Fri, 27 Nov 1998 02:51:21 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from wrsomsky) Message-ID: <19981127025121.A2117@halcyon.com> Date: Fri, 27 Nov 1998 02:51:21 -0800 From: "William R. Somsky" To: Leigh Hart , Alfred Perlstein Cc: Nik Clayton , hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: /etc/rc.d, and changes to /etc/rc? References: <199811172307.JAA18179@at.dotat.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.93.2i In-Reply-To: <199811172307.JAA18179@at.dotat.com>; from Leigh Hart on Wed, Nov 18, 1998 at 09:37:40AM +1030 Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Wed, Nov 18, 1998 at 09:37:40AM +1030, Leigh Hart wrote: > > And far more dangerous on a production system - and Nik - can > I suggest you also implement the scripts as start|restart|stop > rather than just start|stop as far as arguments go! Here, I think that start|stop should be considered a required minimum for any of these scripts, but that any additional arguments would be allowed as appropriate. (Eg, I've written rc.d scripts w/ "restart", "install", "gentlerestart", etc...) Are you suggesting that "restart" should be a required argument? ________________________________________________________________________ William R. Somsky wrsomsky@halcyon.com Physicist, Baritone, Guitarist http://www.halcyon.com/wrsomsky To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message