On Saturday June 25 2005 23:30, -ray spake:
> > I prefer the BSD-style init (in the Linux world, Slackware uses this)
> > over SysV. YMMV.
>
> Mind if i ask why? When I need to restart sendmail or named, i have to go
> mucking through /etc/rc* files to find the command line options to start
> it with. It's easier to /etc/init.d/sendmail restart.
The following 2x4 works on both platforms:
ps auxw | grep sendmail
kill -HUP <pid>
> Or changing IP address? Have to change the config file and run ifconfig
manually. Why not just /etc/init.d/network{ing} restart. Is there any
easier way to do that stuff on BSD (i haven't found one)?
Maybe it's because I never quite got over my total confusion in init.d land.
BSD init just feels cleaner, plus I actually understand it, for the most
part.
--
Joey Kelly
< Minister of the Gospel | Linux Consultant >
http://joeykelly.net
"I may have invented it, but Bill made it famous."
--- David Bradley, the IBM employee that invented CTRL-ALT-DEL
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Date: Sun Jun 26 00:36:33 2005
Subject: [brlug-general] BSD
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> ps auxw | grep sendmail
> kill -HUP <pid>
True but on a system with several hundred sendmail processes running,
that's a major pain.
> Maybe it's because I never quite got over my total confusion in init.d
> land. BSD init just feels cleaner, plus I actually understand it, for
> the most part.
Ahhh... well SysV isn't that bad. It's just symlinks that point to the
init.d scripts. The symlink determines whether the service is
started/stopped when entering/leaving a certain runlevel. Managing the
symlinks manually (Solaris?) is a major pain, but tools like chkconfig
(Redhat) and update-rc.d (Debian) do it all for you. BSD is cleaner and
simpler, but the extra managability you get with SysV is worth it, to me.
ray
