Date: Wed, 6 Aug 2008 22:34:51 -0400 From: "Michael B Allen" <ioplex@gmail.com> To: wbentley@futurecis.com Cc: hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Idea for FreeBSD Message-ID: <78c6bd860808061934l133d8ca6nabbde8cd55cb1d27@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <b58b3fc7f4a07c9b6d55741e2ec25f47.squirrel@secure.futurecis.com> References: <b58b3fc7f4a07c9b6d55741e2ec25f47.squirrel@secure.futurecis.com>
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On Wed, Aug 6, 2008 at 7:14 PM, <wbentley@futurecis.com> wrote: > To who it may concern, > > I am A FreeBSD administrator as well as a Solaris Administrator. I use > BSD at home but Solaris at work. I love both OS's but I would like to > increase the administrative capability of FreeBSD. > > In Solaris 10 the Services Management Facility (SMF) was introduced. > Basically what it does, is take all the rc.d scripts and puts them into > a database to manage. Everything is converted to XML XML is good at document processing and for portable self-describing databases. Otherwise, I would think significantly less of any OS (or application) that used XML for configuration data. At least nothing that anyone would *every* be forced to edit manually. But of course the format of data in a database is largely irrelevant. You could implement the same thing with dbm files or a more forgiving text format. As for getting rid of rc.d scripts, yes they're decrepit and I would love to see them go but they're simple and third party software may depend on them being the norm. Just my 2c, Mike PS: I'm not a FreeBSD "hacker" or even an admin.
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