From owner-freebsd-arch Thu May 30 16:18: 3 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Received: from pintail.mail.pas.earthlink.net (pintail.mail.pas.earthlink.net [207.217.120.122]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1937E37B405 for ; Thu, 30 May 2002 16:18:01 -0700 (PDT) Received: from pool0713.cvx21-bradley.dialup.earthlink.net ([209.179.194.203] helo=mindspring.com) by pintail.mail.pas.earthlink.net with esmtp (Exim 3.33 #2) id 17DZB3-0007TR-00; Thu, 30 May 2002 16:17:53 -0700 Message-ID: <3CF6B300.145E0CD9@mindspring.com> Date: Thu, 30 May 2002 16:17:20 -0700 From: Terry Lambert X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.7 [en]C-CCK-MCD {Sony} (Win98; U) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Daniel Blankensteiner Cc: Gary Thorpe , freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD daemon configurations redesign References: <00c601c2082d$bc531ff0$6800a8c0@rafter> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Daniel Blankensteiner wrote: > From: "Gary Thorpe" > > I do agree that making an /etc/daemon directory to store daemon > > configuration files is probably a good thing to do. A SysV-style init > would > > help with this though. Also, I am sure people will want to distinguish > > between 'core' daemons and user-added ones external to the base. > > I don't know anything about the SysV-style, but yes the core/base > daemons and the user/port daemons should be kept apart! If they weren't, then all daemons might as well be ports, have package registrations, and be easily replaceable and/or removable for small footprint installations. And without our bimonthly "why is sendmail there by default?" flame-fest, where would we be? -- Terry To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-arch" in the body of the message