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To: Nate Williams <nate@trout.sri.mt.net>
Cc: Paul Traina <pst@shockwave.com>, phk@freebsd.org,
        cvs-etc@freefall.cdrom.com
Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/etc/etc.i386 rc.i386 
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Date: Thu, 30 Mar 1995 19:40:36 -0500
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From: Harlan Stenn <Harlan.Stenn@landmark.com>
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[I removed -committers from the header]

> > How about:
> > 
> > for file in rc.local.d/*.rc ; do
> > 	sh $file start
> > done
> > 
> > nice, clean, simple.  If someone ever wants a programatic way to stop
> > these things,
> > 
> > for file in rc.local.d/*.rc ; do
> > 	sh $file stop
> > done
> > 
> > Please don't consider an interface where I need both a start and a stop
> > shell script (bletch bletch bletch).
> 
> I like this.  It's simple and to the point.  The SysV stuff is neither
> of them.

Yes, it's simple and to the point.

The problem is that it usually doesn't work "correctly".

In the usual case, things need to stopped in the REVERSE order in which
they were shut down.  I'm not aware of any situations where it is a bad
idea to stop things in the reverse order in which they were started.

I never wrote:

 rfile=
 for file in rc.local.d/*.rc ; do
    rfile="$file $rfile"
 done
 for file in $rfile ; do
    sh $file stop
 done

I, too, dislike the mess.  The SysV rc?.d/ scheme is a tolerable
solution, but it's not really elegant.

Then again, have you seen the ODM stuff AIX uses to handle things like
/etc/inittab, I/O devices, installed packages, ...?

H