From owner-freebsd-hackers Thu Jun 14 12:35: 5 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from cs.huji.ac.il (cs.huji.ac.il [132.65.16.10]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 34E4437B407 for ; Thu, 14 Jun 2001 12:34:52 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from danny@cs.huji.ac.il) Received: from sexta.cs.huji.ac.il ([132.65.16.13] ident=exim) by cs.huji.ac.il with esmtp (Exim 3.22 #1) id 15ActF-0006Lh-00; Thu, 14 Jun 2001 22:34:49 +0300 Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=sexta.cs.huji.ac.il ident=danny) by sexta.cs.huji.ac.il with esmtp (Exim 3.15 #1) id 15ActE-0006Vf-00; Thu, 14 Jun 2001 22:34:48 +0300 X-Mailer: exmh version 2.2 06/23/2000 with nmh-0.24 To: "Karsten W. Rohrbach" , Peter Pentchev , freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: rc, was: Re: Plan to import NetBSD rc system In-Reply-To: Message from Peter Pentchev of "Thu, 14 Jun 2001 22:03:32 +0300." <20010614220332.A71730@ringworld.oblivion.bg> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Thu, 14 Jun 2001 22:34:48 +0300 From: Danny Braniss Message-Id: Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG the idea is to modify /etc/rc to not start stuff in /usr/local/etc/rc.d blindly, and just 'extrapolate' rc.conf. you can still start/stop the /usr/local/etc/rc.d/*.sh to your heart content, i didn't propose changing them, though modifying mysql-server.sh to mysql_server.sh would make things easier :-) i agree, there is nothing more boring than waiting for linux to come up, or windows, but there is a real problem to solve if one has several boxes sharing /usr/local and you don't (i certainly don't want) all of them starting as mysql servers or whatever happens to be there. btw, the check for xxx_enable can also enable/disable by say, ${local_enable_check} or something, so that the default/old behaviour is kept. one of the things that i liked most about unix, was that it didn't have to be backward compatible (heh, i've been around that long?) danny To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message