From owner-freebsd-hackers Fri Jul 11 12:23:55 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id MAA29107 for hackers-outgoing; Fri, 11 Jul 1997 12:23:55 -0700 (PDT) Received: from sax.sax.de (sax.sax.de [193.175.26.33]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id MAA29094 for ; Fri, 11 Jul 1997 12:23:50 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from uucp@localhost) by sax.sax.de (8.6.12/8.6.12-s1) with UUCP id VAA14574 for freebsd-hackers@freefall.FreeBSD.org; Fri, 11 Jul 1997 21:23:22 +0200 Received: (from j@localhost) by uriah.heep.sax.de (8.8.5/8.8.5) id VAA04616; Fri, 11 Jul 1997 21:16:21 +0200 (MET DST) Message-ID: <19970711211621.IU40866@uriah.heep.sax.de> Date: Fri, 11 Jul 1997 21:16:21 +0200 From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) To: freebsd-hackers@freefall.FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: /etc/init.d/ References: <199707111023.KAA07742@peedub.gj.org> <199707111141.RAA27645@hq.icb.chel.su> X-Mailer: Mutt 0.60_p2-3,5,8-9 Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-PGP-Fingerprint: DC 47 E6 E4 FF A6 E9 8F 93 21 E0 7D F9 12 D6 4E Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) In-Reply-To: <199707111141.RAA27645@hq.icb.chel.su>; from Serge A. Babkin on Jul 11, 1997 17:41:22 +0600 Sender: owner-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk As Serge A. Babkin wrote: > > >> how about implementing /etc/init.d/ .. /etc/rc0.d etc Solaris-like > > >> scheme in FreeBSD? I think it will be useful. And I am ready to do it. > > I think the scheme used in HP-UX 10 is better. It collects > the scripts in /sbin/init.d, /sbin/rcX.d while their configuration > files with tunable parameters are located in /etc/init.d. All SysV-derivatives do it this way, including but not limited to Slowaris. SVR3s didn't have symlinks, they probably did it with hard links then (and everything has been under /etc, of course). -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)