From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed Nov 18 01:15:03 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id BAA06626 for freebsd-hackers-outgoing; Wed, 18 Nov 1998 01:15:03 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from mrelay.jrc.it (mrelay.jrc.it [139.191.1.65]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id BAA06614 for ; Wed, 18 Nov 1998 01:14:57 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from nick.hibma@jrc.it) Received: from elect8 (elect8.jrc.it [139.191.71.152]) by mrelay.jrc.it (LMC5692) with SMTP id KAA16394; Wed, 18 Nov 1998 10:11:05 +0100 (MET) Date: Wed, 18 Nov 1998 10:11:03 +0100 (MET) From: Nick Hibma X-Sender: n_hibma@elect8 Reply-To: Nick Hibma To: Gary Kline cc: Nik Clayton , hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: /etc/rc.d, and changes to /etc/rc? In-Reply-To: <19981117144058.A27582@thought.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 > > daemons, tweaking /etc/rc* to use these scripts instead ] > > > > > What are people's thoughts on doing the same thing to the base system? > I'm surprised to hear this. I'd say go with it. The > differences between BSD and the SYSV rc files|directories > is one of the most significant differences between the two > models. > > Your ideas would be a win-win. More strongly if the template looks like: case in stop) killall proggie ;; *) startall proggie ;; esac instead of the way Solaris does, where {start|stop} is _required_. Nick -- ISIS/STA, T.P.270, Joint Research Centre, 21020 Ispra, Italy To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message