From owner-freebsd-hackers Fri Jul 3 00:27:24 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id AAA01340 for freebsd-hackers-outgoing; Fri, 3 Jul 1998 00:27:24 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from godzilla.zeta.org.au (godzilla.zeta.org.au [203.15.68.22]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id AAA01334 for ; Fri, 3 Jul 1998 00:27:22 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from reilly@zeta.org.au) Received: from zeta.org.au (d22.syd2.zeta.org.au [203.26.11.22]) by godzilla.zeta.org.au (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id RAA22528 for ; Fri, 3 Jul 1998 17:27:21 +1000 Received: (qmail 20320 invoked by uid 1000); 3 Jul 1998 05:51:12 -0000 Message-ID: <19980703155112.A20279@reilly.home> Date: Fri, 3 Jul 1998 15:51:12 +1000 From: Andrew Reilly To: Joe Abley , "Jonathan M. Bresler" Cc: Terry Lambert , joelh@gnu.org, mike@smith.net.au, dmm125@bellatlantic.net, questions@FreeBSD.ORG, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: FreeBSD equiv. of /proc/loadavg References: <199807030027.RAA05728@hub.freebsd.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.91.1i In-Reply-To: ; from Joe Abley on Fri, Jul 03, 1998 at 02:14:53PM +1200 Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Fri, Jul 03, 1998 at 02:14:53PM +1200, Joe Abley wrote: > > Oh Terry! i dont like rc.d because i am left which > > "which of these scripts in which directory did what!" > > why? grr.... > > > One positive advantage of the SYSV start-script approach is that there is > a good chance of finding a single script that can start and stop a single > package or daemon. > > This is a bit of a mess in FreeBSD 2.2.6-R, IMHO - each application that > needs to be stopped or started supplies its own administrative interface, > like ndc (bind) and apachectl (apache) , each living in a different place, > requiring different parameters. I've never understood why you would design a service that took more than /usr/sbin/named to start, and kill -HUP `cat /var/run/named.pid` to stop. What's with all of this script nonsense anyway? -- Andrew To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message