From owner-freebsd-hackers Mon Feb 1 22:44:09 1999 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id WAA20805 for freebsd-hackers-outgoing; Mon, 1 Feb 1999 22:44:09 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from cain.gsoft.com.au (genesi.lnk.telstra.net [139.130.136.161]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id WAA20799 for ; Mon, 1 Feb 1999 22:44:06 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from doconnor@gsoft.com.au) Received: from lot.gsoft.com.au (doconnor@lot.gsoft.com.au [203.38.152.106]) by cain.gsoft.com.au (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id RAA00681; Tue, 2 Feb 1999 17:13:40 +1030 (CST) (envelope-from doconnor@gsoft.com.au) Message-ID: X-Mailer: XFMail 1.3 [p0] on FreeBSD X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <36B695B3.E00558DC@softweyr.com> Date: Tue, 02 Feb 1999 17:13:42 +1030 (CST) From: "Daniel O'Connor" To: Wes Peters Subject: Re: more modular rc/init/uninit system... Cc: David Wolfskill , freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message