From owner-freebsd-hackers Thu Nov 19 15:09:14 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id PAA04912 for freebsd-hackers-outgoing; Thu, 19 Nov 1998 15:09:14 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from nothing-going-on.demon.co.uk (nothing-going-on.demon.co.uk [193.237.89.66]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id PAA04902 for ; Thu, 19 Nov 1998 15:09:09 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from nik@nothing-going-on.demon.co.uk) Received: (from nik@localhost) by nothing-going-on.demon.co.uk (8.8.8/8.8.8) id UAA06769; Thu, 19 Nov 1998 20:29:33 GMT (envelope-from nik) Message-ID: <19981119202933.12625@nothing-going-on.org> Date: Thu, 19 Nov 1998 20:29:33 +0000 From: Nik Clayton To: Nick Hibma , FreeBSD hackers mailing list Subject: Re: /etc/rc.d, and changes to /etc/rc? References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.89.1i In-Reply-To: ; from Nick Hibma on Thu, Nov 19, 1998 at 03:44:59PM +0100 Organization: Nik at home, where there's nothing going on Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Thu, Nov 19, 1998 at 03:44:59PM +0100, Nick Hibma wrote: > I don't like this idea, the scripts will be inherently incompatible with > the ones in /usr/local/etc/rc.d > > case word in > stop) > *) > esac > > solves that. Personally, I'd rather fix the scripts that get installed in /usr/local/etc/rc.d, write documentation that says "Do it like this", provide a skeleton port start/stop script for porters to use, and watch the commit of new ports to make sure they adhere to the structure. But that's just me. . . N -- C.R.F. Consulting -- we're run to make me richer. . . To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message