On Mon, Apr 26, 2010 at 01:08:15AM -0700, Jeremy Chadwick wrote: > Foremost, sorry for the cross-post, but more eyes in this case means > overall more discussion. Secondly, please keep me CC'd as I'm not on > either -rc or -net. > > I recently proposed addition of a new script to the rc framework which > verifies (using ping) that layer 3 network connectivity is up/functional > before continuing on with daemons which require network access: > > http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-stable/2010-April/056400.html > > The overall response was positive, with full acknowledgement that this > is indeed a hack -- yet necessary -- and that something more appropriate > could probably be introduced into the base system to provide a much > cleaner solution (launchd was mentioned). > > I'd like folks (particularly on -rc) to chime in here, and please see > about adding this to the base system.
Given that this would fix the problems many users see in the current world order and that it's relativly unintrusive I think it's an ok thing to add. -- Brooks
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