From owner-freebsd-ports Wed Sep 20 09:00:08 1995 Return-Path: owner-ports Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) id JAA11880 for ports-outgoing; Wed, 20 Sep 1995 09:00:08 -0700 Received: from fslg8.fsl.noaa.gov (fslg8.fsl.noaa.gov [137.75.131.171]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) with SMTP id JAA11829 for ; Wed, 20 Sep 1995 09:00:03 -0700 Received: by fslg8.fsl.noaa.gov (5.57/Ultrix3.0-C) id AA01327; Wed, 20 Sep 95 16:00:01 GMT Received: by emu.fsl.noaa.gov (1.38.193.4/SMI-4.1 (1.38.193.4)) id AA29875; Wed, 20 Sep 1995 09:59:58 -0600 Date: Wed, 20 Sep 1995 09:59:58 -0600 From: kelly@fsl.noaa.gov (Sean Kelly) Message-Id: <9509201559.AA29875@emu.fsl.noaa.gov> To: pechter@shell.monmouth.com Cc: ports@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: <199509201357.JAA12432@shell.monmouth.com> (message from Bill/Carolyn Pechter on Wed, 20 Sep 1995 09:57:13 -0400 (EDT)) Subject: Re: Startup scripts Sender: owner-ports@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk >>>>> "Bill" == Carolyn Pechter writes: Bill> Yes! Yes! Yes... this looks a lot like SVR4 (well, AT&T did Bill> this in SVR3). I tend to like the method they use. Ugh! Ugh ugh! Ugh ugh ugh! Ugh! I'm sure AT&Ts intentions were good: they probably wanted to make it easy to administrate a host by providing simple entry points to start and stop entire subsystems, by defining run levels and letting only necessary daemons run where they need to. But all they got was a MESS. -- Sean Kelly NOAA Forecast Systems Lab, Boulder Colorado USA I was in the grocery store. I saw a sign that said "pet supplies." So I did. Then I went outside and saw a sign that said "compact cars"... -- Steven Wright