Skip site navigation (1)Skip section navigation (2)
Date:      Fri, 10 Jul 1998 09:38:12 -0400 (EDT)
From:      Jamie Bowden <jamie@itribe.net>
To:        "Jonathan M. Bresler" <jmb@FreeBSD.ORG>
Cc:        Terry Lambert <tlambert@primenet.com>, joelh@gnu.org, mike@smith.net.au, dmm125@bellatlantic.net, questions@FreeBSD.ORG, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: FreeBSD equiv. of /proc/loadavg
Message-ID:  <Pine.SGI.3.96.980710093234.1062H-100000@animaniacs.itribe.net>
In-Reply-To: <199807030027.RAA05728@hub.freebsd.org>

next in thread | previous in thread | raw e-mail | index | archive | help
On Thu, 2 Jul 1998, Jonathan M. Bresler wrote:

> Terry Lambert wrote:
> > > >> I realize now though that if you want to port some apps with
> > > >> low-level details, you gotta do a little reworking.
> > > > Yup.  Particularly when you're dealing with code written for Linux 
> > > > (where NIH is considered a virtue...).
> > > 
> > > What's NIH?
> > 
> > We can't tell you; the use of the term was Not Invented Herei, and
> > thus, like SysV rc.d, we fear and mistrust it...  8-).
> 
> 	Oh Terry!  i dont like rc.d because i am left which
> 	"which of these scripts in which directory did what!"
> 	why?  grr....
> 
> 	with our current strcuture, we have some separation without
> 	reaching the level of cookiness that sunos 5.5.1 provides:
> 	70 shell scripts scattered across 5 directories.

Eevery last one of those shell scripts in /etc/rcX.d points back to a
file in /etc/init.d.  There's nothing wrong with the SysV init.  I tend to
prefer it personally.  Guarantees proper startup and shutdown of important
services, like, oh, oracle, which really just hates not be sent a dbshut
and given the proper time to dismount the database.  I also like being
able to use those scripts to shutdown and restart processes individually
on a running system in the exact fashion that init does at
startup/change of runlevel.  There is a reason for the change of rc in
SysV, and it's not a bad thing, just different.

-- 
Jamie Bowden
Systems Administrator, iTRiBE.net

If we've got to fight over grep, sign me up.  But boggle can go.
	-Ted Faber (on Hasbro's request for removal of /usr/games/boggle)


To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org
with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message



Want to link to this message? Use this URL: <https://mail-archive.FreeBSD.org/cgi/mid.cgi?Pine.SGI.3.96.980710093234.1062H-100000>