There has been some talk about taking the SystemStarter from OSX and implementing it in FreeBSD Current.
Also to note for non bsd types. FreeBSD does not have runlevels, it has 2 run modes, single user mode, and multi user mode On Mon, 27 Jun 2005, -ray wrote: > Date: Mon, 27 Jun 2005 19:22:18 -0500 (CDT) > From: -ray <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: [brlug-general] BSD > > > Very interesting... thanks for that link. AIX has had something very similar > for as long as i remember, called the Service Resource Controller (srcmstr). > I don't like it cause it's too complicated for what it does, but has most of > the features you mention. AIX has a very primitive BSD init... so primitive > that IBM said to start a program at boot, add it to /etc/inittab! i normally > create an /etc/rc.local for this though. Most > system tasks are started from srcmstr. > > I read that Solaris 10 has a new-fangled init that does stuff similar to what > the AIX srcmstr and the new FC init's do. I haven't had a chance to run > Solaris 10 though. > > ray > > On Mon, 27 Jun 2005, Tim Fournet wrote: > >> 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: >> > > _______________________________________________ > General mailing list > [email protected] > http://brlug.net/mailman/listinfo/general_brlug.net >
