From owner-freebsd-hackers Fri Apr 17 01:35:14 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id BAA07057 for freebsd-hackers-outgoing; Fri, 17 Apr 1998 01:35:14 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from isbalham.ist.co.uk (isbalham.ist.co.uk [192.31.26.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id IAA07034 for ; Fri, 17 Apr 1998 08:35:10 GMT (envelope-from rb@gid.co.uk) Received: from gid.co.uk (uucp@localhost) by isbalham.ist.co.uk (8.8.7/8.8.4) with UUCP id JAA12643; Fri, 17 Apr 1998 09:33:39 +0100 (BST) Received: from [194.32.164.2] by seagoon.gid.co.uk; Fri, 17 Apr 1998 09:31:07 +0100 (BST) X-Sender: rb@194.32.164.1 Message-Id: In-Reply-To: <199804170534.WAA00450@antipodes.cdrom.com> References: Your message of "Thu, 16 Apr 1998 18:50:55 PDT." <199804170150.SAA03474@bubba.whistle.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Date: Fri, 17 Apr 1998 09:34:09 +0100 To: Mike Smith From: Bob Bishop Subject: Re: Discussion : Using DHCP to obtain configuration. Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG, Archie Cobbs Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG At 6:34 am +0100 17/4/98, Mike Smith wrote: >A new banner: "/etc must die!". I disagree. The more mechanism that minimally has to be working before the system can boot, run a shell and talk to a network, the more nervous I get. init is too complicated already. Just because Apallo did it 15 years ago and Windows does it now, doesn't mean it's necessarily a good idea. KISS -- Bob Bishop (0118) 977 4017 international code +44 118 rb@gid.co.uk fax (0118) 989 4254 between 0800 and 1800 UK To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message