On Sun, 26 Jun 2005, Fernando Vilas wrote: > By "mucking through" the rc files, did you perhaps mean > /etc/rc.d/rc.sendmail restart ? At least that's where slack has had it > for several years. Not trying to start a flame war here, but isn't it > the same thing?
Not trying to start a flame war either, and yes it is the same thing. But an rc.d/rc.sendmail restart script seems very very SysV-like to me. I haven't used slack since 1997 or so, maybe they adopted some SysV stuff? I was mainly talking about FreeBSD and OpenBSD. > Now for some of the networking stuff, I can see your point. the easiest > thing to do is to learn to use ifconfig and iwconfig from the command > line. ifconfig works, but gets more complicated when you have multiple interfaces. You have to lookup which interface, find the old ip, netmask, broadcast, static routes, etc etc. Further complicated when you have multiple ip aliases and many vlan interfaces. It's way too much room for human error and typo's. A typo while changing the network remotely is disastrous. I don't like typing, it's error prone and slows you down. I'd rather changed the init script and let the system do the typing...it doesn't make typo's. ray
