My favorite FreeBSD start-up feature: You can Control-C a service startup. Linux needs that. :)
--- Puryear Information Technology, LLC Baton Rouge, LA * 225-706-8414 http://www.puryear-it.com Download "Best Practices for Managing Linux and UNIX Servers" http://www.puryear-it.com/bestpractices_ebook.htm ----- Original Message ----- From: "Tim Fournet" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Monday, June 27, 2005 4:49 PM Subject: Re: [brlug-general] BSD > And at the same time, the SysV fans are moving to something even more > modern ;) > http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FCNewInit is a good starter for looking at > some of the new ideas and tools for a faster/better bootup manager. SysV > is great in that it keeps everything organized and manageable, but it's a > bottleneck at boot time (so is BSD) and we're at a point now that we need > something better. > > The new proposals support parallel process startups, even better error > handling, automatically restart failed services, and handle runtime > dependencies. Very interesting stuff. > > > > Dustin Puryear wrote: > >> Yes, FreeBSD is definitely moving toward SysV init. And yes, >> /etc/rc.d/rc.sendmail is SysV-ish. :) >> >> --- >> Puryear Information Technology, LLC >> Baton Rouge, LA * 225-706-8414 >> http://www.puryear-it.com >> >> Download "Best Practices for Managing Linux and UNIX Servers" >> http://www.puryear-it.com/bestpractices_ebook.htm >> >> ----- Original Message ----- From: "-ray" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >> To: <[email protected]> >> Sent: Sunday, June 26, 2005 12:23 PM >> Subject: Re: [brlug-general] BSD >> >> >>> 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 >>> >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> General mailing list >>> [email protected] >>> http://brlug.net/mailman/listinfo/general_brlug.net >>> >>> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> General mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://brlug.net/mailman/listinfo/general_brlug.net > > > > _______________________________________________ > General mailing list > [email protected] > http://brlug.net/mailman/listinfo/general_brlug.net > >
