From owner-freebsd-hackers Thu Nov 19 15:09:31 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id PAA04968 for freebsd-hackers-outgoing; Thu, 19 Nov 1998 15:09:31 -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 PAA04959 for ; Thu, 19 Nov 1998 15:09:27 -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 VAA17524; Thu, 19 Nov 1998 21:57:48 GMT (envelope-from nik) Message-ID: <19981119215748.35037@nothing-going-on.org> Date: Thu, 19 Nov 1998 21:57:48 +0000 From: Nik Clayton To: Tony Finch , hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: /etc/rc.d, and changes to /etc/rc? References: <19981115235938.22908@nothing-going-on.org> <19981117210138.03327@nothing-going-on.org> <19981117210138.03327@nothing-going-on.org> <19981118211919.10512@nothing-going-on.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.89.1i In-Reply-To: ; from Tony Finch on Thu, Nov 19, 1998 at 02:54:11PM +0000 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 02:54:11PM +0000, Tony Finch wrote: > I like your idea because I find sysV's /etc/init.d convenient. One > suggestion: could you put the above boilerplate into a file that gets > sourced by all the /etc/rc.d scripts (in case you want to make a > global change to it)? Makes sense. I was going to do that when I was writing these, but thought it was overkill for the sake of two examples. > And I dislike calling the scripts > /etc/rc.d/foo.sh because (IMO) the .sh is redundant and potentially > misleading if (e.g.) the sysadmin decides to rewrite them in Perl. 100% agreement. 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