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Date:      Tue, 5 Apr 2005 17:18:12 -0500
From:      Dan Nelson <dnelson@allantgroup.com>
To:        Ed Stover <estover@nativenerds.com>
Cc:        questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: question about mysql-server.sh
Message-ID:  <20050405221811.GF64927@dan.emsphone.com>
In-Reply-To: <1112738388.3137.13.camel@red.nativenerds.com>
References:  <4252A251.2060408@inteliport.com> <1112738388.3137.13.camel@red.nativenerds.com>

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In the last episode (Apr 05), Ed Stover said:
> rcsubr is the culprit, when you added the line in the rc.conf then
> all was well. You can add a line in the rc.conf and then run the
> /usr/local/etc/rc.d/mysql-server.sh start command with out having to
> reboot. Personally I really dislike rcsubr, makes me think that
> FreeBSD is drifting toward linux's overly comlexness... a script to
> start a script that starts a script that starts a script, blah blah
> blah....

On the plus side, a porter now can install a 10-line startup script
that handles start/stop/restart/status cleanly, and the user can enable
or disable the script, or modify options without editing the startup
script itself and having their local changes blown away the next time
they update the port.

-- 
	Dan Nelson
	dnelson@allantgroup.com



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