From owner-freebsd-hackers Tue Nov 17 13:34:30 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id NAA19035 for freebsd-hackers-outgoing; Tue, 17 Nov 1998 13:34:30 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from bright.fx.genx.net (bright.fx.genx.net [206.64.4.154]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id NAA19026 for ; Tue, 17 Nov 1998 13:34:28 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from bright@hotjobs.com) Received: from localhost (bright@localhost) by bright.fx.genx.net (8.9.1/8.9.1) with ESMTP id QAA05306; Tue, 17 Nov 1998 16:37:07 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from bright@hotjobs.com) X-Authentication-Warning: bright.fx.genx.net: bright owned process doing -bs Date: Tue, 17 Nov 1998 16:37:07 -0500 (EST) From: Alfred Perlstein X-Sender: bright@bright.fx.genx.net To: Nik Clayton cc: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: /etc/rc.d, and changes to /etc/rc? In-Reply-To: <19981117210138.03327@nothing-going-on.org> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Tue, 17 Nov 1998, Nik Clayton wrote: > On Sun, Nov 15, 1998 at 11:59:38PM +0000, Nik Clayton wrote: > [ Creating /etc/rc.d, populating with scripts to start/stop system > daemons, tweaking /etc/rc* to use these scripts instead ] > > > What are people's thoughts on doing the same thing to the base system? > > Well, the silence has been deafening. I've had three positive comments > by private mail, no negative comments by private mail, and nothing on > the list at all. Not even a "Take one step down that road and we > *will* kill your firstborn". Is everyone asleep? > > If there are no more comments by Thursday I'll take it as tacit agreement, > and go ahead. I'll do sendmail first. > >From what i've seen 90% of these scripts wind up being broken replacements for 'killall', that would stink. If they become something like: kill `cat /...../prog.pid` that would be interesting and potentially useful. although killall is usually easier to type than /etc/init.d/ kill -Alfred To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message