On Wed, Oct 30, 2002 at 11:50:45AM -0800, Tim Kientzle wrote: > I find the standard arguments used by RCng quite > awkward. In particular, especially for people who > have worked with SysV-style init scripts, it's
We aren't trying to be compatable with SysV. We are compatable with other BSD's with an RCng deployment. > I would find it vastly more intuitive if the > current arguments were named differently: > > current 'start' -> new 'boot' > current 'stop' -> new 'shutdown' > current 'forcestart' -> new 'start' > current 'forcestop' -> new 'stop' No thank you. This would be a gratitious change from the existing BSD prior art. > This better reflects the actual usage: > the current 'start' and 'stop' are really > intended to be used by RC at system boot > and shutdown time. No, they are also used by sysadmins wanting to cycle a service. To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
