Hi, >>The only reason I can see to support rc scripts is to allow for >>compatibility with older releases of Solaris (or perhaps even with >>other OSes).
Or to implement a one time task - it's much easier to do this with RC scripts than with SMF services. IMHO SMF and RC script have both their advantages and disadvantages. And there is a message in the discussion list which does not match: http://www.opensolaris.org/jive/thread.jspa?threadID=7121&tstart=0 regards Bernd James Carlson wrote: > Mike Gerdts writes: > >> IMHO this behavior is one of those backwards things that Solaris has >> always done that should be fixed if someone in the community is >> willing to do it. Sure - SMF is the way forward but it is overly >> complicated for a new Solaris user to understand how to add a service. >> > > If that's true (I don't think I really agree, but let's suppose), then > why not fix *that* problem instead? Let's make it trivial to add a > new service, so that resorting to rc scripts -- and the lack of system > management support they imply -- just isn't necessary. > > >> In the past, scripts in /etc/rc*.d did not need to be executable to >> work. The suggested workaround is to use the existing behavior IFF >> the file is not executable. Otherwise, simply run the program and let >> the OS determine if it is a bourne shell script, perl script, or ELF >> executable. If someone added a shell script without the shebang, I'm >> pretty sure the interpreter will default to /bin/sh so that should not >> be a worry. >> > > The only reason I can see to support rc scripts is to allow for > compatibility with older releases of Solaris (or perhaps even with > other OSes). In that case, you _have to_ live with the constraints > that those older releases continue to have -- which means that > "#!/bin/ksh" just isn't going to work. > > An rc script should just start the service; it shouldn't be a magnum > opus. Frankly, I think that if you're doing anything in an rc script > that is so complicated that the difference between legacy Bourne shell > and the newer Korn shells makes any real difference, then you're doing > something deeply wrong. > > -- Bernd Schemmer, Frankfurt am Main, Germany http://home.arcor.de/bnsmb/index.html M s temprano que tarde el mundo cambiar . Fidel Castro
