Skip site navigation (1)Skip section navigation (2)
Date:      08 Sep 1999 12:02:19 +0200
From:      Dag-Erling Smorgrav <des@flood.ping.uio.no>
To:        Dominic Mitchell <Dom.Mitchell@palmerharvey.co.uk>
Cc:        Dag-Erling Smorgrav <des@flood.ping.uio.no>, Phil Regnauld <regnauld@ftf.net>, Alfred Perlstein <bright@wintelcom.net>, Eric Wayte <ewayte@pegasus.cc.ucf.edu>, Steven Kehlet <kehlet@techfuel.com>, freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: anyone have System V jokes?
Message-ID:  <xzp1zc9lo0k.fsf@flood.ping.uio.no>
In-Reply-To: Dominic Mitchell's message of "Wed, 8 Sep 1999 10:32:13 %2B0100"
References:  <Pine.SV4.4.10.9909072239070.6168-100000@pegasus.cc.ucf.edu> <Pine.BSF.4.05.9909072308530.6392-100000@fw.wintelcom.net> <19990908100207.37441@ns.int.ftf.net> <xzpaeqxlt58.fsf@flood.ping.uio.no> <19990908103212.A68320@voodoo.pandhm.co.uk>

next in thread | previous in thread | raw e-mail | index | archive | help
Dominic Mitchell <Dom.Mitchell@palmerharvey.co.uk> writes:
> Well, I don't know about IRIX, but I have definite problems with the
> Solaris implementation.  For instance, because of the way that sun ship
> it, you can't "just turn off inetd".  Half of the scrips don't have a
> stop section.  In short, nice idea, but a pain to work with.

Don't blame the design for the shortcomings of the implementation...
especially when those shortcomings would take 10 minutes to fix if the
vendor bothered to fix them.

An enormous advantage of the /etc/rc.d system (at least as implemented
in IRIX) is that it makes it trivial to implement a checkbox-list-
style UI for enabling / disabling services. Shouldn't be too hard to
add dependency information either, so it prevents you from disabling
services that are required by other (still enabled) services.

DES
-- 
Dag-Erling Smorgrav - des@flood.ping.uio.no


To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org
with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message




Want to link to this message? Use this URL: <https://mail-archive.FreeBSD.org/cgi/mid.cgi?xzp1zc9lo0k.fsf>