Date: Sun, 29 Nov 1998 17:56:48 +1030 From: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com> To: Wes Peters <wes@softweyr.com>, dyson@iquest.net Cc: Terry Lambert <tlambert@primenet.com>, advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Linux to be deployed in Mexican schools; Where was FreeBSD? Message-ID: <19981129175648.F456@freebie.lemis.com> In-Reply-To: <3660E1E8.27016719@softweyr.com>; from Wes Peters on Sat, Nov 28, 1998 at 10:55:52PM -0700 References: <199811290408.XAA11525@y.dyson.net> <3660E1E8.27016719@softweyr.com>
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On Saturday, 28 November 1998 at 22:55:52 -0700, Wes Peters wrote: > "John S. Dyson" wrote: >> >> Terry Lambert said: >>> >>> o FreeBSD is still third-party layered software unfriendly >>> (some would call it antagonistic). There is no real >>> method in FreeBSD for installing software that is supposed >>> to start at system startup and shutdown gracefully at >>> system shutdown. >>> >>> Fix: Change the FreeBSD "init" process. This is political >>> suicide, but technological necessity. >>> >> No question about that. SYSV init or something close to that >> is necessary. > > It shouldn't be all that difficult; have the arguments in that past > been "it's just not BSD-ish?" OK, I must be missing something, but what does System V init have that makes it easier to start up or shut down an application? /etc/rc*.d isn't the problem: that's a question of scripts, not init. Greg -- See complete headers for address, home page and phone numbers finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-advocacy" in the body of the message
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