From owner-freebsd-current Wed Dec 15 13:13:30 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from critter.freebsd.dk (critter.freebsd.dk [212.242.40.131]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 86FE414DD6 for ; Wed, 15 Dec 1999 13:13:27 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from phk@critter.freebsd.dk) Received: from critter.freebsd.dk (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by critter.freebsd.dk (8.9.3/8.9.2) with ESMTP id WAA12346; Wed, 15 Dec 1999 22:13:09 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from phk@critter.freebsd.dk) To: David Scheidt Cc: Warner Losh , current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Init Re: MAKEDEV (Re: Speaking of moving files (Re: make world broken building fortunes ) ) ) In-reply-to: Your message of "Wed, 15 Dec 1999 15:04:25 CST." Date: Wed, 15 Dec 1999 22:13:09 +0100 Message-ID: <12344.945292389@critter.freebsd.dk> From: Poul-Henning Kamp Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG In message , 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