Date: Mon, 29 Jul 1996 22:14:15 +0200 From: roberto@keltia.freenix.fr (Ollivier Robert) To: branson@widomaker.com (Branson Matheson) Cc: plm@xs4all.nl (Peter Mutsaers), FreeBSD-chat@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD vs. Linux -- one user's opinions Message-ID: <199607292014.WAA14361@keltia.freenix.fr> In-Reply-To: <199607291130.HAA07053@garion.hq.ferg.com>; from Branson Matheson on Jul 29, 1996 7:30:54 -0400 References: <199607291130.HAA07053@garion.hq.ferg.com>
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According to Branson Matheson:
> programs is a wonderful ability. I also like the ease of being able
> to start, stop or restart any program in a sysV machine by going into
> /etc/rc.d and typing {program} stop, start or restart.
You can have it *now*. Here is the top of my /etc/sysconfig:
######################### Start Of Local Configuration Section ###########
# Location of local startup files.
local_startup=/etc/rc.d
270 [0:44] root@keltia:~# ll /etc/init.d
total 4
-rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel 188 Sep 25 1995 README
-rwxr-x--- 1 root wheel 359 Mar 7 21:58 httpd.sh*
-rwxr-x--- 1 root wheel 244 Jun 30 14:14 news.sh*
-rwxr-x--- 1 root wheel 314 Nov 17 1995 ssh.sh*
271 [22:07] root@keltia:~# ll /etc/rc.d
total 0
lrwxr-xr-x 1 root wheel 17 May 27 00:28 90news.sh@ -> ../init.d/news.sh
lrwxr-xr-x 1 root wheel 16 May 27 00:28 91ssh.sh@ -> ../init.d/ssh.sh
You can see that hhtpd.sh is not run at startup as it is not present in
rc.d. I can start/stop ssh just by using the script itself:
------------------------------------------------------------
#! /bin/sh
SSHDIR=/etc/ssh
PIDDIR=/var/run
if [ X"$1" = Xstart ]; then
if [ -f /usr/local/sbin/sshd -a -f $SSHDIR/sshd_config ]; then
echo 'Starting sshd.'
/usr/local/sbin/sshd
fi
fi
if [ X"$1" = Xstop ]; then
if [ -f $PIDDIR/sshd.pid ]; then
echo 'Stopping sshd.'
kill `cat $PIDDIR/sshd.pid`
fi
fi
------------------------------------------------------------
> I have often contemplated replacing the current setup with somthing a
> little more useful... like an /etc/rc.* set of directories that still
> used the /etc/sysconfig to start the system.
I also have patches to init in order to use a /etc/rc.shutdown file. The
patches are a bit half-baked because there was a discussion about the
behaviour of reboot/halt. If we want to do it as complete as possible, both
of them should only be "kill -HUP 1" and let init do all the work.
As they are now, rc.shutdown is run when you shutdown the system with
shutdown(8) but not with halt(8)/reboot(8).
Patching init(8) to use a directory /etc/rc.shutdown.d instead should not
be that difficult.
If you want them...
274 [22:11] root@keltia:~# ll ~/Patches/init.2.0.PATCH
-rw-r--r-- 1 roberto bin 4282 Dec 26 1994 init.2.0.PATCH
They would have to be adapted to 2.2 but it should not be difficult.
--
Ollivier ROBERT -=- The daemon is FREE! -=- roberto@keltia.freenix.fr
FreeBSD keltia.freenix.fr 2.2-CURRENT #16: Sun Jul 21 13:26:53 MET DST 1996
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