Date: Thu, 21 Jun 2012 12:22:08 +0200 (CEST) From: Wojciech Puchar <wojtek@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl> To: Peter Jeremy <peter@rulingia.com> Cc: "freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org" <freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org>, openrc@gentoo.org Subject: Re: Replacing rc(8) (Was: FreeBSD Boot Times) Message-ID: <alpine.BSF.2.00.1206211159280.1662@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl> In-Reply-To: <20120620214006.GA1651@aspire.rulingia.com> References: <4FDFB44D.9090308@gentoo.org> <4FE0ADCD.9010109@FreeBSD.org> <4FE0C123.8030301@gentoo.org> <CAGH67wRidMZrzjzTSdwud%2BZ5V--wOTN8CHXOWcOr%2BE5XHYo2rA@mail.gmail.com> <4FE0F773.1080403@gentoo.org> <CAGH67wQdb-c0Kf=60rkaJSH8Hd0OjwCi=rQQMzGq8xfp2q7b=Q@mail.gmail.com> <4FE100F9.2050009@funtoo.org> <20120620073920.GA5300@lonesome.com> <alpine.BSF.2.00.1206201618560.75278@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl> <CAPDOV49kkOdeV%2B6LVW5j5PO6VYrrNVqWZEksc_GzvWHjbufoAQ@mail.gmail.com> <20120620214006.GA1651@aspire.rulingia.com>
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Lets make a summary. What functionality would be good to have in FreeBSD that doesn't exist: 1) "runlevels" with arbitrary names. runlevel change would start and stop right services. 2) exploit startup parallelism. What we do not want to change: - file structure which is simple. one file in rc.d/ per service and one global config file (rc.conf) - anything else that would make things more complicated. As for 1) i propose in rc.conf an option to put "NO", "YES" (or ALL) or runlevel list for each service or runlevel exclusion list for service. examples: service1_enable="YES" service2_enable="NO" service3_enable="foolevel maintenance" service4_enable="YES -foolevel" (or ALL -funkyrunlevel) name of default runlevel may be "full" or "multiuser" service 1 will always work, service 2 never, service 3 only at runlevels "foolevel" and "maintenance", service4 with any runlevel except "foolevel". still single rc.conf, not much bigger in practice. 2) no change in rc.d/* scripts and rc.conf, but change in scripts. If everyone agree i think i may write this new scripts.
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