From owner-freebsd-current Mon May 8 23:53:20 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from dt051n0b.san.rr.com (dt051n0b.san.rr.com [204.210.32.11]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B9F5937B940; Mon, 8 May 2000 23:53:17 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from DougB@gorean.org) Received: from gorean.org (doug@master [10.0.0.2]) by dt051n0b.san.rr.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id XAA72979; Mon, 8 May 2000 23:53:16 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from DougB@gorean.org) Message-ID: <3917B5DC.951BE936@gorean.org> Date: Mon, 08 May 2000 23:53:16 -0700 From: Doug Barton Organization: Triborough Bridge & Tunnel Authority X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.72 [en] (X11; U; FreeBSD 5.0-CURRENT-0507 i386) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Kris Kennaway Cc: Will Andrews , FreeBSD Current Subject: Re: rc.d startup scripts References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit 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 :) Point well taken. If anyone has references to this work, or an easy introduction to netbsd's version I'd love to look at them. I've been hoping to carve out some time to work on this, but every time I talk about vacation, my boss just laughs.... Doug -- "Live free or die" - State motto of my ancestral homeland, New Hampshire Do YOU Yahoo!? To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message