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Date:      Tue, 24 Oct 2000 04:49:40 +0700 (NOVST)
From:      Alexey Dokuchaev <danfe@inet.ssc.nsu.ru>
To:        freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: new rc.network6 and rc.firewall6
Message-ID:  <Pine.LNX.4.10.10010240445540.23970-100000@inet.ssc.nsu.ru>
In-Reply-To: <20001022153957.A4742@dragon.nuxi.com>

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On Sun, 22 Oct 2000, David O'Brien wrote:

> On Sat, Oct 21, 2000 at 11:05:37AM -0700, Jordan Hubbard wrote:
> > > I wish to update rc.network6 and introduce rc.firewall6.
> > 
> > Hmmmm.  I must confess that I see /etc as getting rather cluttered
> > these days.  Is there no way to perhaps collapse some of the most
> > related functionality into single files and start passing arguments
> > or something?  Just a comment..
> 
> At BSDcon Luke M showed me what the NetBSD 1.5 rc files look like.
> They've moved them all to /etc/rc.d/ and made them very granular (as
> SVR4, but w/o leading numbers in the filenames).  The NetBSD
> implementation also solved all the issues people have brought up in the
> past -- dependacies, etc...
> 
> We should just move to using their rc code.

Well, would not be this stepping aside from BSD startup sequence, which we
all know and love?  Having dozens of small files instead of pair of
big ones always frustrates me when I have to work with linux.

--
	With all due respect,
	DAN Fe



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