Date: Tue, 23 Feb 2016 18:22:14 -0800 From: Doug Barton <dougb@dougbarton.us> To: George Michaelson <ggm@algebras.org> Cc: mat@freebsd.org, freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Patch for named rc.d script to allow multiple instances Message-ID: <56CD13D6.9020404@dougbarton.us> In-Reply-To: <CAKr6gn3zQTv4Mo22JUpbf4HFjCA9OyaWsv=BJ6ojfOaZYKSidA@mail.gmail.com> References: <56CD0E0E.9090907@dougbarton.us> <CAKr6gn3zQTv4Mo22JUpbf4HFjCA9OyaWsv=BJ6ojfOaZYKSidA@mail.gmail.com>
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Hey George :) Glad to hear that this will actually be useful for someone. Doug On 02/23/2016 06:09 PM, George Michaelson wrote: > thanks for this doug. we need to do this, this is hugely useful to us. > > On Wed, Feb 24, 2016 at 2:57 PM, Doug Barton <dougb@dougbarton.us > <mailto:dougb@dougbarton.us>> wrote: > > Howdy, > > I'm currently working on a project that requires multiple instances > of named to run on the same server. So I took some time to modify > the rc.d script to support that robustly. > > The original concept for rc.d was that it should be easy to run > multiple instances of the same service, using a mechanism similar to > the one here. However that original mechanism was not ever/widely > used. As a result some of the code was removed, some of it rotted, > etc. It's still *relatively* easy to do, and hopefully the notes > included in the patch explain the process sufficiently. > > FWIW, I don't care if the patch is incorporated anywhere or not. But > since the work is already done I thought I'd share it in case it's > useful to someone. > > best regards, > > Doug > >
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