Date: Mon, 30 Nov 1998 11:16:23 +1030 From: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com> To: rssh@grad.kiev.ua, Adrian Filipi-Martin <adrian@ubergeeks.com> Cc: dyson@iquest.net, wes@softweyr.com, tlambert@primenet.com, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: System V init (was: Linux to be deployed in Mexican schools; Where was FreeBSD?) Message-ID: <19981130111623.E831@freebie.lemis.com> In-Reply-To: <3661E443.5E392E32@Shevchenko.Kiev.UA>; from Ruslan Shevchenko on Mon, Nov 30, 1998 at 12:18:11AM %2B0000 References: <Pine.BSF.3.96.981129164342.867C-100000@lorax.ubergeeks.com> <3661E443.5E392E32@Shevchenko.Kiev.UA>
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On Monday, 30 November 1998 at 0:18:11 +0000, Ruslan Shevchenko wrote: > A I still don't understand why this has become an issue again. > >> There is /usr/local/etc/rc.d. The scrtips are called with "start" and >> using rc.shutdown, you can make sure they are called with "stop". What >> more does a third party software vendor need? They certainly cannot care >> about how basic system functions are managed. > > becouse services are depend from each other. > > for example, let you have database ans SNMP interface daemon for it. > > SNMP interface daemon start "after" databse, learm PID of database > from pid-file of one. Now you want to restart database, you call > start and stop scripts, and magically you SNMP interface don't work. OK, but you can do this in System V as well. I still haven't seen anything that explains what System V init will do (and BSD init won't) that we need to implement automatic startup and stopping of subsystems. 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-hackers" in the body of the message
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