From owner-freebsd-hackers Thu Sep 21 06:55:21 1995 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) id GAA06403 for hackers-outgoing; Thu, 21 Sep 1995 06:55:21 -0700 Received: from spot.lodgenet.com (lodgenet.iw.net [204.157.148.88]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) with ESMTP id GAA06364 for ; Thu, 21 Sep 1995 06:53:57 -0700 Received: from tserv.lodgenet.com (root@tserv.lodgenet.com [204.124.120.10]) by spot.lodgenet.com (8.6.12/8.6.12) with ESMTP id IAA10304; Thu, 21 Sep 1995 08:46:02 -0500 Received: from jake.lodgenet.com (jake.lodgenet.com [204.124.120.30]) by tserv.lodgenet.com (8.6.12/8.6.12) with ESMTP id IAA25372; Thu, 21 Sep 1995 08:43:59 -0500 Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by jake.lodgenet.com (8.6.12/8.6.9) with SMTP id IAA03773; Thu, 21 Sep 1995 08:50:35 -0500 Message-Id: <199509211350.IAA03773@jake.lodgenet.com> X-Authentication-Warning: jake.lodgenet.com: Host localhost didn't use HELO protocol X-Mailer: exmh version 1.6.2 7/18/95 To: "Serge A. Babkin" cc: gryphon@healer.com (Coranth Gryphon), hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: ports startup scripts In-reply-to: Your message of "Thu, 21 Sep 1995 18:14:55 +0600." <199509211214.SAA11758@hq.icb.chel.su> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Thu, 21 Sep 1995 08:50:34 -0500 From: "Eric L. Hernes" Sender: owner-hackers@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk > > > The files generally have fairly clear names, and they all live in > > > /etc/init.d. The rc* directories only contain symlinks to the file > > > in init.d, and the symlinks are clearly named. > > > > Yuk. One sub-directory of /etc being used just to have symlinks to > > another sub-directory of /etc? > > Old SCO had hard links and it was a big problem because they had a bad > trend to restore as separate files from backups. So symbolic links > look better. > Yea, and they kind of went overboard on OpenServer 5. They must have been so proud of the fact that they finally got symlinks that they decided to make the entire filesystem out of 'em. They had symlinks on 4.2 too, but apparently not enough people found out about them, so they made 'em more obvious. > Serge Babkin > > ! (babkin@hq.icb.chel.su) > ! Headquarter of Joint Stock Commercial Bank "Chelindbank" > ! Chelyabinsk, Russia > -- erich@lodgenet.com erich@rrnet.com