From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Oct 16 16: 9: 1 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mail.plug.cx (kypo.alfred.cx [150.101.93.134]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DC9BF37B403 for ; Tue, 16 Oct 2001 16:08:55 -0700 (PDT) Received: by mail.plug.cx (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 0FA132B8BF; Wed, 17 Oct 2001 09:04:04 +0930 (CST) Date: Wed, 17 Oct 2001 09:04:04 +0930 From: Andrew Reid To: Mike Meyer Cc: Andrew Reid , questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Network Startup Message-ID: <20011017090404.B16064@plug.cx> References: <88624047@toto.iv> <15308.23901.224115.801253@guru.mired.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <15308.23901.224115.801253@guru.mired.org>; from mwm@mired.org on Tue, Oct 16, 2001 at 11:16:29AM -0500 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Tue, Oct 16, 2001 at 11:16:29AM -0500, Mike Meyer wrote: > > That's a bit of a problem as far as I'm concerned. Perhaps the network > > scripts should be redesigned in a similar manner to the one taken on be > > RedHat. > > Note that rc.conf and just the network scripts are slightly different > things. rc.conf controls a lot more than just the network, and the > only way to reload it is a reboot. Individual components can be > stopped and restarted - or asked to reconfig - by hand. Indeed. The latter component of your statement is what bothers me. Having only the manual way available to restart network interfaces isn't quite satisfactory to me. > As far as I know, the RedHat stuff is modeled after System V, which, > aside from the one good feature you've just noticed, acts more like a > bilge pump than software. Agreed. > There is work afoot for incorporating the 5.0 to incorporate the > NetBSD startup system, which picks up that one good feature of the > System V stuff, adds a few other goodies, and doesn't otherwise act > like a bilge pump. I'm not particularly familiar with the NetBSD startup system. Tell me, does it support this slightly simplified way of restarting the network interfaces? I don't feel that the type of startup system I'm advocating should be confined solely to network interfaces. One of the few things that I really like about RedHat is the fact that I can restart nearly any system service by issuing "/sbin/service servicename action" (where servicename is either network, inetd etc, and action is one of start, stop, restart etc.). Will 5.0 incorporate this kind of startup procedure? As I've said before, seemingly little effort is required on a per-service basis to "enable" them for this kind of startup procedure, with so much in the areas of ease of use to gain. - andrew -- void signature () { cout << "Andrew Reid -- andrew.reid@plug.cx" << endl; cout << "Cell: +61 401 946 813" << endl; cout << "Quidquid latine dictum sit, altum viditur" << endl; } To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message