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Date:      Tue, 02 Feb 1999 17:13:42 +1030 (CST)
From:      "Daniel O'Connor" <doconnor@gsoft.com.au>
To:        Wes Peters <wes@softweyr.com>
Cc:        David Wolfskill <dhw@whistle.com>, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: more modular rc/init/uninit system...
Message-ID:  <XFMail.990202171342.doconnor@gsoft.com.au>
In-Reply-To: <36B695B3.E00558DC@softweyr.com>

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On 02-Feb-99 Wes Peters wrote:
> > the scripts are a nice (useful IMHO :) place to start.
>  Well, then get started.  Hacking up rc.* into rc.inet, rc.nfs,
>  etc. should be pretty straightforward work.  It's just not all
>  that hard.  ;^)
Bah, I new someone would say that :)
I just though that since someone seemed to be interested in doing it, then why don't they
start with this, and then do the dependancy stuff later..
That way I get the benefits NOW =)

> > (The idea being that the dependancy code just calls the scripts which are already in
> > place)
>  That was what drove my idea to use a makefile; you could write the 
>  start/stop scripts and express the dependencies in the makefile; the 
>  start/stop scripts would be useful on their own.  The disadvantage is 
>  that you now have to edit the Makefile to add or remove something; 
>  which we were trying to avoid.
Yes, which could be problematic to do automatically :)

---
Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer
for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au
"The nice thing about standards is that there
are so many of them to choose from."
  -- Andrew Tanenbaum

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