Date: Fri, 20 Nov 1998 14:22:29 +0100 From: Marius Bendiksen <Marius.Bendiksen@scancall.no> To: Rene de Vries <rene@canyon.demon.nl>, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG (freebsd-hackers) Cc: eivind@yes.no (Eivind Eklund) Subject: Re: /etc/rc.d, and changes to /etc/rc? Message-ID: <3.0.5.32.19981120142229.0093e3d0@mail.scancall.no> In-Reply-To: <199811201216.NAA00990@canyon.demon.nl> References: <19981119235019.54220@follo.net>
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>Wouldn't it be neat to have a command like: "service start apache" which >starts apache (and all other services needed to run apache). Indeed. >I think that this could be done along the same lines as Eivind suggested, >but without the "RC:BEFORE" option. Services should know on which other >services they depend on and therefor you don't need a before option. 'init' doesn't, however. >/etc/rc could then use something like ". /sbin/service start all" to start >all services. You need proper ordering to make this work, which one of the things Eivind has implemented. >I can't see all the (dis)advantages of this idea, so please don't flame me. <flame>[insert flames here for good measure]</flame> There! ;) --- Marius Bendiksen, IT-Trainee, ScanCall AS <marius@scancall.no> To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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