On Sat 2000-09-09 (11:25), Matthew Thyer wrote:
> Don Lewis wrote:
> >
> > On Sep 9, 12:05am, Matthew Thyer wrote:
> > } Subject: Re: /usr/local/etc/rc.d and /etc/rc.d
> > } Neil Blakey-Milner wrote:
> >
> > } > I'd prefer a dependency based syste
Don Lewis wrote:
>
> On Sep 9, 12:05am, Matthew Thyer wrote:
> } Subject: Re: /usr/local/etc/rc.d and /etc/rc.d
> } Neil Blakey-Milner wrote:
>
> } > I'd prefer a dependency based system. (cf. Eivind Eklund's newrc, at
> } > http://people.FreeBSD.org/~ei
On Fri, Sep 08, 2000 at 04:47:15PM +0200, Neil Blakey-Milner wrote:
> Note the excessive use of "perl -i -pe 's/foo/bar/'" for in-place
> substitution. I've asked on at least two occasions for a simple,
> easy-to-use, thing to do it without doing a two-liner that copies to
> another file, and then
On Fri 2000-09-08 (11:12), Don Lewis wrote:
> On Sep 9, 12:05am, Matthew Thyer wrote:
> } Subject: Re: /usr/local/etc/rc.d and /etc/rc.d
> } Neil Blakey-Milner wrote:
>
> } > I'd prefer a dependency based system. (cf. Eivind Eklund's newrc, at
> } >
On Sep 9, 12:05am, Matthew Thyer wrote:
} Subject: Re: /usr/local/etc/rc.d and /etc/rc.d
} Neil Blakey-Milner wrote:
} > I'd prefer a dependency based system. (cf. Eivind Eklund's newrc, at
} > http://people.FreeBSD.org/~eivind/newrc.tar.gz)
How does this compare with what Ne
Neil Blakey-Milner wrote:
>
> On Sat 2000-09-09 (00:05), Matthew Thyer wrote:
> > The point is that people are worried about scripts that aren't aware
> > of the "start" and "stop" argument trying to start apps again at
> > shutdown time. With my scheme, the script wont be executed at shutdown
>
On Sat 2000-09-09 (00:05), Matthew Thyer wrote:
> > > Stop scripts will be a symbolic link to their startup script
> > > counterpart (and would simply not be executed if the K* file doesn't
> > > exist). Symbolic links make it clear they are the same script.
> >
> > I don't see the point.
>
> T
Neil Blakey-Milner wrote:
>
> On Fri 2000-09-08 (22:53), Matthew Thyer wrote:
> > The startup and shutdown functionality would be in the same script
> > and the scripts should be named starting with a capital 'S' for
> > startup and a capital 'K' for shutdown (I'm also keen on the HPUX
> > startm
Replying to my own message.
In summary, the main things the scheme I describe gives us are:
- control over startup/shutdown order with the numbers
- accomodates older scripts (by just not having the K script
linked to the S, script things wont be started again at
shutdown time).
- enou
On Fri 2000-09-08 (22:53), Matthew Thyer wrote:
> I would like to see startup and shutdown scripts exist in a single
> directory ("/usr/local/etc/rc.d/" for ports and eventually
> "/etc/rc.d" when the system migrates to the same scheme).
I don't think we should move away from the 'base' system an
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