Date: Tue, 3 Apr 2001 08:42:56 +0800 From: David Xu <bsddiy@21cn.com> To: Doug White <dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu> Cc: "David O'Brien" <arch@FreeBSD.ORG>, Cy Schubert - ITSD Open Systems Group <Cy.Schubert@uumail.gov.bc.ca>, Jack Rusher <jar@integratus.com>, Neil Blakey-Milner <nbm@mithrandr.moria.org>, Michael Lucas <mwlucas@blackhelicopters.org>, "litos2001@libero.it" <litos2001@libero.it> Subject: Re[3]: Startup scripts a la NetBSD Message-ID: <39898261.20010403084256@21cn.com> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.33.0104021519460.34175-100000@resnet.uoregon.edu> References: <Pine.BSF.4.33.0104021519460.34175-100000@resnet.uoregon.edu>
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Hello Doug, Tuesday, April 03, 2001, 6:26:10 AM, you wrote: DW> On Mon, 2 Apr 2001, David Xu wrote: >> In the past, I saw lots of people refused to see rc.d style in >> FreeBSD, include some guys in core team, at that time, I'm very >> disappointed, why is it back again? is this just because of NetBSD? DW> Because sysv-style init scripts actually make sense for both admins and DW> installed packages? It's not traditionally BSD, but unfortunately programs DW> are much more complex today, generally with multiple daemons and DW> interdependencies for starting up properly. A vendor-supplied script DW> makes sure everything is set up to start the daemons/packages correctly, DW> and gives a nice start/stop knob for the admin to control it with. DW> For the record, I hacked up this pile of scripts to emulate one runlevel, DW> along with a linux-style chkconfig(8) script. You just have to call the DW> start-rc3.sh script at some point in the boot, and stop-rc3.sh when DW> shutting down. Since we have rc.shutdown.d you don't have to edit DW> rc.shutdown anymore. If you really want Linnex-style /etc/rc.d/init.d/ DW> and friends, this will give it to you. DW> It should be in DW> ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/ports/local-distfiles/dwhite/sysvrc-1.1.tar.gz, DW> or any other MASTER_SITE_LOCAL mirror. DW> Doug White | FreeBSD: The Power to Serve DW> dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | www.FreeBSD.org I like the idea, it has unique start/stop interface, I needn't remember obscure parameters for every daemon, it really got me. but am I dreaming? I suspect it will never be native supported in FreeBSD. -- Best regards, David Xu To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-arch" in the body of the message
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