Date: Wed, 8 Sep 1999 16:04:41 +0100 From: Dominic Mitchell <Dom.Mitchell@palmerharvey.co.uk> To: Dag-Erling Smorgrav <des@flood.ping.uio.no> Cc: Dominic Mitchell <Dom.Mitchell@palmerharvey.co.uk>, Phil Regnauld <regnauld@ftf.net>, Alfred Perlstein <bright@wintelcom.net>, Eric Wayte <ewayte@pegasus.cc.ucf.edu>, Steven Kehlet <kehlet@techfuel.com>, freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: anyone have System V jokes? Message-ID: <19990908160441.B811@voodoo.pandhm.co.uk> In-Reply-To: <xzp1zc9lo0k.fsf@flood.ping.uio.no> References: <Pine.SV4.4.10.9909072239070.6168-100000@pegasus.cc.ucf.edu> <Pine.BSF.4.05.9909072308530.6392-100000@fw.wintelcom.net> <19990908100207.37441@ns.int.ftf.net> <xzpaeqxlt58.fsf@flood.ping.uio.no> <19990908103212.A68320@voodoo.pandhm.co.uk> <xzp1zc9lo0k.fsf@flood.ping.uio.no>
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On Wed, Sep 08, 1999 at 12:02:19PM +0200, Dag-Erling Smorgrav wrote: > Dominic Mitchell <Dom.Mitchell@palmerharvey.co.uk> writes: > > Well, I don't know about IRIX, but I have definite problems with the > > Solaris implementation. For instance, because of the way that sun ship > > it, you can't "just turn off inetd". Half of the scrips don't have a > > stop section. In short, nice idea, but a pain to work with. > > Don't blame the design for the shortcomings of the implementation... > especially when those shortcomings would take 10 minutes to fix if the > vendor bothered to fix them. Oh, I agree entirely. > An enormous advantage of the /etc/rc.d system (at least as implemented > in IRIX) is that it makes it trivial to implement a checkbox-list- > style UI for enabling / disabling services. Shouldn't be too hard to > add dependency information either, so it prevents you from disabling > services that are required by other (still enabled) services. The dependency information can be a lot harder. There has been discussion about this in -hackers a while back. As usual, nothing came of it, though. I think Eivind was one of the instigators... -- Dom Mitchell -- Palmer & Harvey McLane -- Unix Systems Administrator "vi has two modes the one in which it beeps and the one in which it doesnt." -- Anon. ********************************************************************** This email and any files transmitted with it are confidential and intended solely for the use of the individual or entity to whom they are addressed. If you have received this email in error please notify the system manager. This footnote also confirms that this email message has been swept by MIMEsweeper for the presence of computer viruses. www.mimesweeper.com ********************************************************************** To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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