Date: Sat, 5 Dec 1998 15:54:17 +0000 (GMT) From: tj-fbsd@funbox.demon.co.uk To: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Sysconfig, or, the SysV vs. BSD init wars Message-ID: <tim.36695B93.00.11A7@funbox.demon.co.uk>
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Brian Cully <shmit@kublai.com> wrote: > I've spent the last few weeks working on and off on a replacement for > /etc/rc, and given the recent traffic regarding such, I figured now's > a good time to tell the world. > > The program itself, sysconfig (probably should be called sysinit, > given it's functionality), should be called from init instead of > /etc/rc, and sysconfig reads it's data out of /etc/system (or > something). The syntax of the file looks like this: [...] > I'd really like feedback on this It looks as if you've put a fair amount of thought, and work, into this. However, I find myself thinking that shell scripts (or a monolithic script) are very flexible, easy to alter and to check, and more than adequate for the job. For my part, I don't see the necessity (or, I'm afraid, the desirability) for changing from script(s). Of course, one of the attractions of Unix is that one can do one's own thing (tm :)... but my vote is for the shell script. Tim (who seems to be a neo-traditionalist at heart) -- Tim Jackson London, England. ________________________________________________________________________ Please reply to t j @ f u n b o x . d e m o n . c o . u k To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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