From owner-freebsd-current Wed Nov 18 11:17:25 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id LAA22354 for freebsd-current-outgoing; Wed, 18 Nov 1998 11:17:25 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from lonegunman.xfiles.org.uk (lonegunman.xfiles.org.uk [194.200.230.242]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id LAA22341 for ; Wed, 18 Nov 1998 11:17:16 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from benhutch@lonegunman.xfiles.org.uk) Received: (from benhutch@localhost) by lonegunman.xfiles.org.uk (8.9.1/8.9.1) id TAA18140; Wed, 18 Nov 1998 19:16:28 GMT (envelope-from benhutch) Message-ID: <19981118191628.A18022@xfiles.org.uk> Date: Wed, 18 Nov 1998 19:16:28 +0000 From: Ben Hutchinson To: Doug White Cc: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: /etc/rc.d, and changes to /etc/rc? References: <19981118014446.C15587@xfiles.org.uk> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.93.2i In-Reply-To: ; from Doug White on Wed, Nov 18, 1998 at 10:45:15AM -0800 Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Wed, Nov 18, 1998 at 10:45:15AM -0800, Doug White wrote: > I strongly oppose this; rc.d already exists and is standardized in several > releases. Such a change would be gratuitous. I wasn't suggesting that rc.d be ditched, merely that another option be provided if a port wished to make use of it. > > rc.shutdown.d would be a self-documenting name. rcK.d doesn't mean > anything to me. (K=kill?? I don't come from a Solaris background.) Yep, Knnscriptname generally means "this is a shutdown script, invoke me as scriptname stop". rc.shutdown.d would be fine, the examples I provided were merely a rough idea. > > It would save people from hacking /etc/rc.shutdown (like rc.d saves > hacking /etc/rc.local). Which is why it would (IMHO) be a good idea. - Ben To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message