From owner-freebsd-current Tue May 9 21:28:26 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 4386F37B6C5 for ; Tue, 9 May 2000 21:28:22 -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 VAA83273; Tue, 9 May 2000 21:28:01 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from DougB@gorean.org) Message-ID: <3918E550.2F804AB8@gorean.org> Date: Tue, 09 May 2000 21:28:00 -0700 From: Doug Barton Organization: Triborough Bridge & Tunnel Authority X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.72 [en] (X11; U; FreeBSD 5.0-CURRENT-0508 i386) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Narvi 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 Narvi wrote: > > Errrmmm.... Really, did you check the archives for the issue? > > There used to be a real long thread on why/why not sysV style init > scripts. It produced not one but several flamewars iirc 8-) > > In short - if we change from the present scheme, we want something better > than just stop and restart entry points for the scripts. > > What happens if the restarting is not an atomic, independent act? I already covered this. Please read all your mail on a thread before responding, thanks. 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