On Thu, Jul 26, 2001 at 05:22:19PM -0400, Perry E. Metzger wrote: > > > NetBSD has an rc system that was designed by Luke Mewburn based on > some ideas of mine (and a program I wrote called rcorder). Rather than > having the files in the rc?.d directories run in a lexically defined > order, they run in a dynamically computed order based on > dependencies. This works a lot more nicely and is pretty logical. We > switched to the system a while ago. > > FreeBSD is now (I understand) adopting our system. > > I strongly suggest studying it before throwing it out. Simulating SysV
there was a discussion on (I think) debian-devel not such long ago about replacing current debian init scheme with something more Makefile-based, with dependencies People generally liked the idea, but feared the work it'd take (I, for myself, would support it) Do NetBSD startup scripts providel reverse dependencies? I mean, when you are starting e.g. nfs-server, it depends on nfs-common, that depends on portmap, and that depends on networking, so these scripts are run in correct order. And when I decide to stop networking, does it know to stop first nfs-server, then nfs-common, them portmap and finally networking? > init script behavior is pretty trivial in our system, except for the > fact that we don't have run levels. We decided that in practice people > don't actually need or use run levels although they very often claim > to want them. Of all the runlevels there are, I ever used only 2 (default), 6 (reboot), 0 (halt), 1 (single user). So there for the need for runleves :-) -- ----------------------------------------------------------- | Radovan Garabik http://melkor.dnp.fmph.uniba.sk/~garabik/ | | __..--^^^--..__ garabik @ melkor.dnp.fmph.uniba.sk | ----------------------------------------------------------- Antivirus alert: file .signature infected by signature virus. Hi! I'm a signature virus! Copy me into your signature file to help me spread!
