Date: Wed, 24 Feb 2016 15:09:01 +1300 From: George Michaelson <ggm@algebras.org> To: Doug Barton <dougb@dougbarton.us> Cc: mat@freebsd.org, freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Patch for named rc.d script to allow multiple instances Message-ID: <CAKr6gn3zQTv4Mo22JUpbf4HFjCA9OyaWsv=BJ6ojfOaZYKSidA@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <56CD0E0E.9090907@dougbarton.us> References: <56CD0E0E.9090907@dougbarton.us>
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thanks for this doug. we need to do this, this is hugely useful to us. On Wed, Feb 24, 2016 at 2:57 PM, Doug Barton <dougb@dougbarton.us> wrote: > Howdy, > > I'm currently working on a project that requires multiple instances of > named to run on the same server. So I took some time to modify the rc.d > script to support that robustly. > > The original concept for rc.d was that it should be easy to run multiple > instances of the same service, using a mechanism similar to the one here. > However that original mechanism was not ever/widely used. As a result some > of the code was removed, some of it rotted, etc. It's still *relatively* > easy to do, and hopefully the notes included in the patch explain the > process sufficiently. > > FWIW, I don't care if the patch is incorporated anywhere or not. But since > the work is already done I thought I'd share it in case it's useful to > someone. > > best regards, > > Doug >
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