From owner-freebsd-hackers Sat Jan 30 10:54:18 1999 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id KAA24492 for freebsd-hackers-outgoing; Sat, 30 Jan 1999 10:54:18 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from friley-185-205.res.iastate.edu (friley-185-205.res.iastate.edu [129.186.185.205]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id KAA24487 for ; Sat, 30 Jan 1999 10:54:16 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from ccsanady@friley-185-205.res.iastate.edu) Received: from friley-185-205.res.iastate.edu (localhost.res.iastate.edu [127.0.0.1]) by friley-185-205.res.iastate.edu (8.9.2/8.9.1) with ESMTP id MAA33995; Sat, 30 Jan 1999 12:53:52 -0600 (CST) (envelope-from ccsanady@friley-185-205.res.iastate.edu) Message-Id: <199901301853.MAA33995@friley-185-205.res.iastate.edu> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.0.2 2/24/98 To: Robert Withrow cc: wes@softweyr.com, "Daniel C. Sobral" , Brandon Gillespie , hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: more modular rc/init/uninit system... In-reply-to: Your message of "Sat, 30 Jan 1999 12:48:37 EST." <199901301748.MAA03171@spooky.rwwa.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Sat, 30 Jan 1999 12:53:51 -0600 From: Chris Csanady Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG >Regarding using Make for startup: > >wes@softweyr.com said: >:- Good? Bad? Indifferent? > >I'd say: more complicated than the job requires. We have a *simpler* >tool for managing graphs: tsort(1). > >If you go back to the process I suggested, you need only tsort the >dependencies and save it in /var/run. It is then available for use >to stop selected components. A while back, Eivind posted a set of rc scripts that used tsort. It seemed like a really nice system, although it did not implement the the analagous shutdown mechanism. Has any progress been made on this? Anyways, the url was http://www.freebsd.org/~eivind/newrc.tar.gz. Chris Csanady To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message