Date: Sun, 25 Dec 2011 09:21:56 +0000 From: Chris Rees <crees@freebsd.org> To: Maxim Ignatenko <gelraen.ua@gmail.com> Cc: freebsd-rc@freebsd.org Subject: Re: conf/163508: [rc.subr] [patch] Add "enable" and "disable" commands to rc.subr Message-ID: <CADLo838xeD_Q0EGLF8yJyVmvY-Cny=LvXUe5%2BfOJ_P0XabRO2w@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <201112250720.pBP7KCjL015178@freefall.freebsd.org> References: <201112250720.pBP7KCjL015178@freefall.freebsd.org>
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On 25 December 2011 07:20, Maxim Ignatenko <gelraen.ua@gmail.com> wrote:
> The following reply was made to PR conf/163508; it has been noted by GNAT=
S.
>
> From: Maxim Ignatenko <gelraen.ua@gmail.com>
> To: Doug Barton <dougb@freebsd.org>
> Cc: bug-followup@freebsd.org
> Subject: Re: conf/163508: [rc.subr] [patch] Add "enable" and
> =A0"disable" commands to rc.subr
> Date: Sun, 25 Dec 2011 09:15:44 +0200
>
> =A0On 24 December 2011 22:59, Doug Barton <dougb@freebsd.org> wrote:
> =A0> On 12/24/2011 04:20, Maxim Ignatenko wrote:
> =A0>> The idea was to make enabling/disabling services less error-prone.
> =A0>
> =A0> How is adding foo_enable=3D1 to rc.conf error-prone?
> =A0>
>
> =A0Typo like fooo_enbale=3D1, or one missed '>' in echo foo_enable=3D1 > =
/etc/rc.conf
Let's think about this in a historical way...
We (the BSDs) with our rcng have a massive advantage over the horrors
of configuring a SysV init system; has anyone recently tried to change
the 'runlevel' of a service on Debian without using rc-update? It
involves putting numbered symlinks into each rcX.d
We don't have this problem, it's as simple as adding a line to
/etc/rc.conf(:?local)?.
Yes, other systems have rc-update and cool magic like that, but our
system is SO much simpler that these just aren't necessary. It's not
a case of being error-prone;
BSD:
# echo 'foo_enable=3D"YES"' >>/etc/rc.conf
SysV:
# for runlevel in 1 2 3 4 5 ; do ln -s /etc/init.d/foo
/etc/rc${runlevel}.d/S22foo ; done
Chris
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