From owner-freebsd-current Mon May 8 14:18:43 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from freefall.freebsd.org (freefall.FreeBSD.ORG [204.216.27.21]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9A64A37B617; Mon, 8 May 2000 14:18:39 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from kris@FreeBSD.org) Received: from localhost (kris@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.9.3/8.9.2) with ESMTP id OAA06772; Mon, 8 May 2000 14:18:39 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from kris@FreeBSD.org) X-Authentication-Warning: freefall.freebsd.org: kris owned process doing -bs Date: Mon, 8 May 2000 14:18:39 -0700 (PDT) From: Kris Kennaway To: Doug Barton Cc: Will Andrews , FreeBSD Current Subject: Re: rc.d startup scripts In-Reply-To: <3915E459.2C1A382C@gorean.org> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Sun, 7 May 2000, Doug Barton wrote: > I'm going to reply to the system part of this too, replies to this > thread should split off to -current. I have a design in mind for a new > rc system that uses scripts with "start, stop, status" operators to both > upgrade and downgrade services, where "services" are defined as groups > of daemons/programs that work together. For example, "nfs" would be an > example of a service, which would be subdivided into client and server, > etc. Eivind Eklund made a prototype some time back which addressed this issue - you'd do well to take a look at that one first before reinventing the wheel :) Kris ---- In God we Trust -- all others must submit an X.509 certificate. -- Charles Forsythe To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message