From owner-freebsd-hackers Sat Dec 5 08:24:33 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id IAA19085 for freebsd-hackers-outgoing; Sat, 5 Dec 1998 08:24:33 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from funbox.demon.co.uk (funbox.demon.co.uk [158.152.85.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id IAA19080 for ; Sat, 5 Dec 1998 08:24:30 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from tj-fbsd@funbox.demon.co.uk) From: tj-fbsd@funbox.demon.co.uk Received: by funbox.demon.co.uk (mail 1.50) id tim.36695B93.00.11A7; Sat, 5 Dec 1998 16:13:07 +0000 Message-ID: To: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Date: Sat, 5 Dec 1998 15:54:17 +0000 (GMT) Subject: Re: Sysconfig, or, the SysV vs. BSD init wars Lines: 29 Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Brian Cully wrote: > I've spent the last few weeks working on and off on a replacement for > /etc/rc, and given the recent traffic regarding such, I figured now's > a good time to tell the world. > > The program itself, sysconfig (probably should be called sysinit, > given it's functionality), should be called from init instead of > /etc/rc, and sysconfig reads it's data out of /etc/system (or > something). The syntax of the file looks like this: [...] > I'd really like feedback on this It looks as if you've put a fair amount of thought, and work, into this. However, I find myself thinking that shell scripts (or a monolithic script) are very flexible, easy to alter and to check, and more than adequate for the job. For my part, I don't see the necessity (or, I'm afraid, the desirability) for changing from script(s). Of course, one of the attractions of Unix is that one can do one's own thing (tm :)... but my vote is for the shell script. Tim (who seems to be a neo-traditionalist at heart) -- Tim Jackson London, England. ________________________________________________________________________ Please reply to t j @ f u n b o x . d e m o n . c o . u k To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message