From owner-freebsd-stable Wed Sep 20 20:27:29 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from freeway.dcfinc.com (cx74889-a.phnx3.az.home.com [24.1.193.157]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2739E37B424 for ; Wed, 20 Sep 2000 20:27:27 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from chad@localhost) by freeway.dcfinc.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) id UAA03936; Wed, 20 Sep 2000 20:27:24 -0700 (MST) (envelope-from chad) From: "Chad R. Larson" Message-Id: <200009210327.UAA03936@freeway.dcfinc.com> Subject: Re: SysV Style Init? In-Reply-To: from jmutter at "Sep 20, 0 06:26:09 pm" To: jmutter@ds.net (jmutter) Date: Wed, 20 Sep 2000 20:27:23 -0700 (MST) Cc: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Reply-To: chad@DCFinc.com Organization: DCF, Inc. X-O/S: FreeBSD 2.2.8-STABLE X-Unexpected: The Spanish Inquisition X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL40 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG As I recall, jmutter wrote: > Before I go and do this on my own, has anyone bothered to convert the > rc.* scripts to System V style S/K scripts? I'm trying to introduce > FreeBSD into a large .com, the SysV style init scripts would be > helpful so that I can avoid retraining the production staff. One of the few things about SysV that I think is an improvement over BSD is the concept of "run states". Fairly easy to implement, I believe (small changes in "init" and some shuffling of scripts), but probably a political uphill fight against traditionalists... -crl -- Chad R. Larson (CRL15) 602-953-1392 Brother, can you paradigm? chad@dcfinc.com chad@larsons.org larson1@home.net DCF, Inc. - 14623 North 49th Place, Scottsdale, Arizona 85254-2207 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message