From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed Nov 18 21:50:12 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id VAA13563 for freebsd-hackers-outgoing; Wed, 18 Nov 1998 21:50:12 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from gershwin.tera.com (gershwin.tera.com [207.224.230.28]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id VAA13558 for ; Wed, 18 Nov 1998 21:50:09 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from kline@tao.thought.org) Received: from tao.thought.org (tao.tera.com [207.108.223.55]) by gershwin.tera.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id VAA25569; Wed, 18 Nov 1998 21:49:35 -0800 (PST) Received: (from kline@localhost) by tao.thought.org (8.8.8/8.7.3) id VAA08821; Wed, 18 Nov 1998 21:49:03 -0800 (PST) From: Gary Kline Message-Id: <199811190549.VAA08821@tao.thought.org> Subject: Re: /etc/rc.d, and changes to /etc/rc? In-Reply-To: <86emr0itlo.fsf@detlev.UUCP> from Joel Ray Holveck at "Nov 18, 98 03:22:43 pm" To: joelh@gnu.org (Joel Ray Holveck) Date: Wed, 18 Nov 1998 21:49:03 -0800 (PST) Cc: adrian@ubergeeks.com, kline@thought.org, jal@ThirdAge.com, n@nectar.com, nik@nothing-going-on.demon.co.uk, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Organization: <> thought.org: public access uNix in service... <> X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL32 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG According to Joel Ray Holveck: [[ ... ]] > > We're not talking about adopting the entire SysV init heirarchy, which > is where most of the ratsnest comes from. We're talking about > augmenting the existing rc system with a little bit more. > I think this is the central point. I'm in 0.0 way advocating that we turn BSD into another SysV look-alike. Just that we make small changes like these that will, in time, have significant benefits. gary -- Gary D. Kline kline@tao.thought.org Public service uNix To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message