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Date:      Sat, 30 Jan 1999 12:53:51 -0600
From:      Chris Csanady <ccsanady@friley-185-205.res.iastate.edu>
To:        Robert Withrow <witr@rwwa.com>
Cc:        wes@softweyr.com, "Daniel C. Sobral" <dcs@newsguy.com>, Brandon Gillespie <brandon@roguetrader.com>, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: more modular rc/init/uninit system... 
Message-ID:  <199901301853.MAA33995@friley-185-205.res.iastate.edu>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sat, 30 Jan 1999 12:48:37 EST." <199901301748.MAA03171@spooky.rwwa.com> 

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>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




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