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Date:      Wed, 15 Dec 1999 22:13:09 +0100
From:      Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@critter.freebsd.dk>
To:        David Scheidt <dscheidt@enteract.com>
Cc:        Warner Losh <imp@village.org>, current@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Init Re: MAKEDEV (Re: Speaking of moving files (Re: make world broken building fortunes ) ) ) 
Message-ID:  <12344.945292389@critter.freebsd.dk>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 15 Dec 1999 15:04:25 CST." <Pine.NEB.3.96.991215150029.64299A-100000@shell-1.enteract.com> 

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In message <Pine.NEB.3.96.991215150029.64299A-100000@shell-1.enteract.com>, Dav
id Scheidt writes:
>On Wed, 15 Dec 1999, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote:
>
>> In message <199912152044.NAA63531@harmony.village.org>, Warner Losh writes:
>> 
>> I would really like to see the devd functionality to live in init
>> and at the same time I wouldn't mind if init were taught to keep
>> important programs running, things like sshd, inetd, syslogd and
>> similar should be restarted if they die.
>> 
>> No, I don't want sysV runlevels or the weird shit AIX has.  I'm sure
>> a clean and sensible way can be found, if some mental energies are
>> poured into the problem.
>
>What's wrong with run with system V runlevels?  Other than it's system V and
>everything AT^HUSL did is evil, of course.   

runlevels are a very oldfashioned way to think about things, I don't
want to have one big button which is called "NETWORKING ON/OFF".

We need to be able to dynamically say "keep this puppy alive" and
later "ok, forget about that one from now on".

--
Poul-Henning Kamp             FreeBSD coreteam member
phk@FreeBSD.ORG               "Real hackers run -current on their laptop."
FreeBSD -- It will take a long time before progress goes too far!


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