On Wed, Aug 06, 2008 at 07:14:51PM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > To who it may concern, > > I am A FreeBSD administrator as well as a Solaris Administrator. I use > BSD at home but Solaris at work. I love both OS's but I would like to > increase the administrative capability of FreeBSD. > > In Solaris 10 the Services Management Facility (SMF) was introduced. > Basically what it does, is take all the rc.d scripts and puts them into > a database to manage. Everything is converted to XML and two basic > commands (svcs and svcadm) are used to manage everything.
I highly recommend you and anyone advocating the use of XML for such things read the following whitepaper/study, in full: http://www.cs.kent.ac.uk/pubs/2004/2102/content.pdf -- | Jeremy Chadwick jdc at parodius.com | | Parodius Networking http://www.parodius.com/ | | UNIX Systems Administrator Mountain View, CA, USA | | Making life hard for others since 1977. PGP: 4BD6C0CB | _______________________________________________ freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"