From owner-freebsd-current Mon May 8 19:57: 1 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from internal.mail.demon.net (internal.mail.demon.net [193.195.224.3]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D39EC37BA12; Mon, 8 May 2000 19:56:57 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from fanf@demon.net) Received: from fanf.eng.demon.net (fanf.eng.demon.net [195.11.55.89]) by internal.mail.demon.net with ESMTP id DAA24604; Tue, 9 May 2000 03:56:54 +0100 (BST) Received: from fanf by fanf.eng.demon.net with local (Exim 3.13 #1) id 12p0Cc-000CB9-00; Tue, 09 May 2000 03:56:54 +0100 To: kris@freebsd.org From: Tony Finch Cc: current@freebsd.org, doug@gorean.org Subject: Re: rc.d startup scripts In-Reply-To: References: <3915E459.2C1A382C@gorean.org> Message-Id: Date: Tue, 09 May 2000 03:56:54 +0100 Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Kris Kennaway wrote: >On Sun, 7 May 2000, Doug Barton wrote: > >> I'm going to reply to the system part of this too, replies to this >> thread should split off to -current. I have a design in mind for a new >> rc system that uses scripts with "start, stop, status" operators to both >> upgrade and downgrade services, where "services" are defined as groups >> of daemons/programs that work together. For example, "nfs" would be an >> example of a service, which would be subdivided into client and server, >> etc. > >Eivind Eklund made a prototype some time back which addressed this issue - >you'd do well to take a look at that one first before reinventing the >wheel :) Or you could use the system that NetBSD already has working. Tony. -- f.a.n.finch fanf@demon.net dot@dotat.at 381 plastic fruit for a starving nation To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message