Date: Fri, 22 Sep 1995 23:04:21 -0400 From: Coranth Gryphon <gryphon@healer.com> To: Hackers@FreeBSD.ORG, witr@rwwa.com Subject: Re: ports startup scripts Message-ID: <199509230304.XAA05231@healer.com>
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From: Robert Withrow <witr@rwwa.com>
> The sysv entities are *not* levels, but are, instead, *states* (and
> some of the documentation calls them that. There is no necessary
> connection between run*state* 1 and run*state* 2. Run*state* 2 should
...
> set of software should be running and some other set should not.
OK, now we're talking about implementing the DOS 6.* menu system.
We pick an arbitrary number of discrete states, and tailor each
one to be exactly what we want.
Points to consider:
It's doable. DOS is doing it.
It's not BSD. Oh well...
It's SysV-ish. Yahoo...
It's not what we we talking about, let along the original topic.
The current system works good. To make it work better, we need a simple
way to say "run this much of startup". This is the "run-levels" concept.
If we want to implement this, great - let's do it our way and KISS.
Alternately, we can have lots of different config entries, and
for clarity we should damn well let them be named (not numbers),
which means a boot menu. OK. That's another seperate option.
But what we really end up with there is the same original problem -
how do we keep track of what runs when, and do we really want
ports (which started this whole thing off) mucking around with
whatever table we come up with to hold this information.
Personally, I don't like run-states. Too complicated for too little gain.
Run levels I can see a use for (if we keep it to 4-ish levels).
-coranth
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