From owner-freebsd-hackers Thu Jan 16 11:26:40 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.4/8.8.4) id LAA08153 for hackers-outgoing; Thu, 16 Jan 1997 11:26:40 -0800 (PST) Received: from sax.sax.de (sax.sax.de [193.175.26.33]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.4/8.8.4) with SMTP id LAA08144 for ; Thu, 16 Jan 1997 11:26:30 -0800 (PST) Received: (from uucp@localhost) by sax.sax.de (8.6.12/8.6.12-s1) with UUCP id UAA03167 for FreeBSD-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG; Thu, 16 Jan 1997 20:26:08 +0100 Received: (from j@localhost) by uriah.heep.sax.de (8.8.4/8.6.9) id TAA15582; Thu, 16 Jan 1997 19:58:20 +0100 (MET) Message-ID: Date: Thu, 16 Jan 1997 19:58:20 +0100 From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) To: FreeBSD-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: SysV init References: <199701151836.NAA09575@shell.monmouth.com> <199701152006.NAA04245@phaeton.artisoft.com> X-Mailer: Mutt 0.55-PL10 Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-PGP-Fingerprint: DC 47 E6 E4 FF A6 E9 8F 93 21 E0 7D F9 12 D6 4E Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) In-Reply-To: <199701152006.NAA04245@phaeton.artisoft.com>; from Terry Lambert on Jan 15, 1997 13:06:06 -0700 Sender: owner-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk As Terry Lambert wrote: > I am very interested, because I want to run SVR4 database server > binaries without hacking up my rc file. Lame excuse: you can already almost do this by now. Put the script (taking an argument of "stop" or "start") in /usr/local/etc/rc.d. What's needed is the rc.shutdown facility, but we've been debating this already, and it doesn't exactly require a SysV init to be done. -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)