From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Nov 21 06:00:43 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id GAA24691 for questions-outgoing; Thu, 21 Nov 1996 06:00:43 -0800 (PST) Received: from horton.iaces.com ([204.147.87.98]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id GAA24685 for ; Thu, 21 Nov 1996 06:00:37 -0800 (PST) Received: (from proot@localhost) by horton.iaces.com (8.7.5/8.7.3) id IAA06677; Thu, 21 Nov 1996 08:00:09 -0600 (CST) From: "Paul T. Root" Message-Id: <199611211400.IAA06677@horton.iaces.com> Subject: Re: question: Unite or Die? To: lkoeller@odie.physik2.uni-rostock.de (Lars Koeller) Date: Thu, 21 Nov 1996 08:00:09 -0600 (CST) Cc: LARRYD@bldg1.croute.com, questions@FreeBSD.org In-Reply-To: <199611210915.KAA07761@odie.physik2.uni-rostock.de> from Lars Koeller at "Nov 21, 96 10:15:07 am" X-Organization: !nterprise Networking Services - ACES X-Phone: (612) 663-1979 X-Fax: (612) 663-8030 X-Page: (800) SKY-PAGE PIN: 537-7270 X-Address: 200 S. 5th St., Suite 1100 X-Address: Minneapolis, MN 55402 X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL22 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-questions@FreeBSD.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk In a previous message, Lars Koeller said: > > Hmmmpf. Linux want's to be SystemV-ish, but it's more a hermaphrodite cause > there are a lot of BSD is utilities on it. To be SystemV-ish is a bit more > than to have this confusing init-file structure. It's not that confusing, if you'd just take 10 minutes to understand it. And btw, FreeBSD gives you the same thing. If you look in your sysconfig, it references /usr/local/etc/rc.d and /usr/X11R6/etc/rc.d, where you can put startup files. The files must end in .sh. I use them for everything now, instead of /etc/rc.local. It gives you much more flexability to stop and start packages. Oh, I'm not defending linux. I've never used it and don't know much about it. I'm a BSD guy at heart, and Solaris now. -- Paul T. Root E/Mail: proot@iaces.com 200 S. 5th St. Suite 1100 PAG: +1 (800) SKY-PAGE PIN: 537-7370 Minneapolis, MN 55402 WRK: +1 (612) 663-1979 NIC: PTR FAX: +1 (612) 663-8030