On Thu, Jun 21, 2012 at 05:19:27PM +0100, Chris Rees wrote:
> On Jun 21, 2012 5:15 PM, "Jason Hellenthal" <jhellent...@dataix.net> wrote:
> >
> >
> >
> > On Thu, Jun 21, 2012 at 12:22:08PM +0200, Wojciech Puchar wrote:
> > > Lets make a summary.
> > >
> > > What functionality would be good to have in FreeBSD that doesn't exist:
> > >
> > > 1) "runlevels" with arbitrary names. runlevel change would start and
> stop
> > > right services.
> > > 2) exploit startup parallelism.
> > >
> > >
> > > What we do not want to change:
> > >
> > > - file structure which is simple. one file in rc.d/ per service and one
> > > global config file (rc.conf)
> > > - anything else that would make things more complicated.
> > >
> > >
> > > As for
> > >
> > > 1) i propose in rc.conf an option to put "NO", "YES" (or ALL) or
> runlevel
> > > list for each service or runlevel exclusion list for service.
> > >
> > >
> > > examples:
> > >
> > > service1_enable="YES"
> > > service2_enable="NO"
> > > service3_enable="foolevel maintenance"
> > > service4_enable="YES -foolevel" (or ALL -funkyrunlevel)
> > >
> > > name of default runlevel may be "full" or "multiuser"
> > >
> > > service 1 will always work, service 2 never, service 3 only at runlevels
> > > "foolevel" and "maintenance", service4 with any runlevel except
> > > "foolevel".
> > >
> > > still single rc.conf, not much bigger in practice.
> > >
> > > 2) no change in rc.d/* scripts and rc.conf, but change in scripts.
> > >
> > >
> > > If everyone agree i think i may write this new scripts.
> >
> > Sorry but I completely disagree here. Why ?
> >
> > Because do one thing and do one thing well. What do you mean ?
> 
> He means the UNIX philosophy.
> 
> http://www.faqs.org/docs/artu/ch01s06.html
> 

Thanks.. I didn't have a link at hand for that.

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