From owner-freebsd-hackers Fri Nov 27 15:50:52 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id PAA09039 for freebsd-hackers-outgoing; Fri, 27 Nov 1998 15:50:52 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from smtp02.primenet.com (smtp02.primenet.com [206.165.6.132]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id PAA09034 for ; Fri, 27 Nov 1998 15:50:50 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from tlambert@usr02.primenet.com) Received: (from daemon@localhost) by smtp02.primenet.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) id QAA27465; Fri, 27 Nov 1998 16:50:43 -0700 (MST) Received: from usr02.primenet.com(206.165.6.202) via SMTP by smtp02.primenet.com, id smtpd027450; Fri Nov 27 16:50:39 1998 Received: (from tlambert@localhost) by usr02.primenet.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) id QAA25484; Fri, 27 Nov 1998 16:50:39 -0700 (MST) From: Terry Lambert Message-Id: <199811272350.QAA25484@usr02.primenet.com> Subject: Re: /etc/rc.d, and changes to /etc/rc? To: spork@super-g.com (spork) Date: Fri, 27 Nov 1998 23:50:39 +0000 (GMT) Cc: nik@nothing-going-on.demon.co.uk, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: from "spork" at Nov 24, 98 04:06:54 pm X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL25] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > Personally (and I'm biased since I just started kicking around my Sparc2), > I think there are some serious gains here for people new to FBSD, and some > major conveniences for wizened users. I would have killed for ./nfsd.sh > top/start this past week. There seem to be more and more people using > databases and some of them (mysql for one) don't like the way they are > currently shutdown. If rather than killing the daemon we could call > 'mysqladmin shutdown', that would be swell. I've got to say that it ruins LDAP's whole day, if the directory has been written, since there are no write-atomicity guarantees beyond the object level in the current LDAP incarnations. Terry Lambert terry@lambert.org --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message