From owner-freebsd-arch Sun Feb 10 14:27:29 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Received: from voi.aagh.net (pc1-hart4-0-cust168.mid.cable.ntl.com [62.254.84.168]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EDEC637B405 for ; Sun, 10 Feb 2002 14:27:25 -0800 (PST) Received: from freaky by voi.aagh.net with local (Exim 3.34 #1) id 16a2RQ-0000S9-00 for freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.ORG; Sun, 10 Feb 2002 22:27:24 +0000 Date: Sun, 10 Feb 2002 22:27:24 +0000 From: Thomas Hurst To: freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Site wide daemon startup policy for ports ala ${PREFIX}/etc/(rc.conf|defaults/)... Message-ID: <20020210222724.GB1079@voi.aagh.net> Mail-Followup-To: freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.ORG References: <20020210125214.B43813@ninja1.internal> <20020210130914.B72163@xor.obsecurity.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20020210130914.B72163@xor.obsecurity.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.27i Organization: Not much. X-Operating-System: FreeBSD/4.5-PRERELEASE (i386) X-Uptime: 10:10PM up 52 days, 6:56, 5 users, load averages: 2.00, 2.00, 2.00 Sender: owner-freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG * Kris Kennaway (kris@obsecurity.org) wrote: > On Sun, Feb 10, 2002 at 12:52:14PM -0800, Sean Chittenden wrote: > > > Quick summary (bad pseudo-code): > > > > Defaults = eval `cat ${PREFIX}/etc/defaults/*.conf` > > Host specific = eval `cat ${PREFIX}/etc/rc.conf` > > Startup script = ${PREFIX}/etc/rc.d/snmpd.sh > > I think this looks pretty good in outline. Agreed. sh library functions to do things like finding PREFIX would be nice too. Speaking of which, has any progress been made on porting the NetBSD system, and/or implimenting our own? Has anyone even tried? :) -- Thomas 'Freaky' Hurst - freaky@aagh.net - http://www.aagh.net/ - Kinkler's First Law: Responsibility always exceeds authority. Kinkler's Second Law: All the easy problems have been solved. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-arch" in the body of the message