Date: Wed, 15 Dec 1999 22:13:09 +0100 From: Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@critter.freebsd.dk> To: David Scheidt <dscheidt@enteract.com> Cc: Warner Losh <imp@village.org>, current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Init Re: MAKEDEV (Re: Speaking of moving files (Re: make world broken building fortunes ) ) ) Message-ID: <12344.945292389@critter.freebsd.dk> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 15 Dec 1999 15:04:25 CST." <Pine.NEB.3.96.991215150029.64299A-100000@shell-1.enteract.com>
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In message <Pine.NEB.3.96.991215150029.64299A-100000@shell-1.enteract.com>, Dav id Scheidt writes: >On Wed, 15 Dec 1999, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote: > >> In message <199912152044.NAA63531@harmony.village.org>, Warner Losh writes: >> >> I would really like to see the devd functionality to live in init >> and at the same time I wouldn't mind if init were taught to keep >> important programs running, things like sshd, inetd, syslogd and >> similar should be restarted if they die. >> >> No, I don't want sysV runlevels or the weird shit AIX has. I'm sure >> a clean and sensible way can be found, if some mental energies are >> poured into the problem. > >What's wrong with run with system V runlevels? Other than it's system V and >everything AT^HUSL did is evil, of course. runlevels are a very oldfashioned way to think about things, I don't want to have one big button which is called "NETWORKING ON/OFF". We need to be able to dynamically say "keep this puppy alive" and later "ok, forget about that one from now on". -- Poul-Henning Kamp FreeBSD coreteam member phk@FreeBSD.ORG "Real hackers run -current on their laptop." FreeBSD -- It will take a long time before progress goes too far! To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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