Date: Wed, 03 Feb 1999 09:04:03 +0900 From: "Daniel C. Sobral" <dcs@newsguy.com> To: David Wolfskill <dhw@whistle.com> Cc: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: more modular rc/init/uninit system... Message-ID: <36B79273.C201B5AD@newsguy.com> References: <199902021752.JAA16952@pau-amma.whistle.com>
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David Wolfskill wrote: > > >Yes, which could be problematic to do automatically :) > > That is one respect in which the SysV approach is relatively easy: by > blacing a (link to the) script in an appropriate directory with an > appropriate name, it gets started/stopped at a (relatively) well-defined > point in the run-level change. 1) Links? That's awful. Configuration information should be put in a FILE. 2) Run levels are flawed. They are "one-dimensional", and the problem they have to solve is not. (Refer to PPP vs Network problem). 3) It makes something simple (specifying a dependency) difficult, by having the manager figure out the dependency graph and needlessly introduce opportunity for inconsistency (like startup/shutdown scripts not matched). This is precisely what should NOT be implemented, imho. -- Daniel C. Sobral (8-DCS) dcs@newsguy.com She just looked at him over the rotating pencil like, how slow can a mammal be and still have respiratory functions? To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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