Date: Fri, 3 Jul 1998 15:51:12 +1000 From: Andrew Reilly <andrew@reilly.home> To: Joe Abley <jabley@clear.co.nz>, "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: <19980703155112.A20279@reilly.home> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.96.980703140828.18952B-100000@buddha.clear.net.nz>; from Joe Abley on Fri, Jul 03, 1998 at 02:14:53PM %2B1200 References: <199807030027.RAA05728@hub.freebsd.org> <Pine.BSF.3.96.980703140828.18952B-100000@buddha.clear.net.nz>
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On Fri, Jul 03, 1998 at 02:14:53PM +1200, Joe Abley wrote: > > Oh Terry! i dont like rc.d because i am left which > > "which of these scripts in which directory did what!" > > why? grr.... > > > One positive advantage of the SYSV start-script approach is that there is > a good chance of finding a single script that can start and stop a single > package or daemon. > > This is a bit of a mess in FreeBSD 2.2.6-R, IMHO - each application that > needs to be stopped or started supplies its own administrative interface, > like ndc (bind) and apachectl (apache) , each living in a different place, > requiring different parameters. I've never understood why you would design a service that took more than /usr/sbin/named to start, and kill -HUP `cat /var/run/named.pid` to stop. What's with all of this script nonsense anyway? -- Andrew To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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