Kelly Yancey wrote: > On Sat, 8 Jul 2000, Mike Meyer wrote: > > > > By all means, use start/stop args, but hard link the .sh files into seperate > > > directories or something so that the order can be tweaked.. > > > > If all you want is to make sure that shutdown happens in the reverse > > order of startup, that can be done by reversing the list in > > rc.shutdown. But how about going a step further, and starting towards > > a user-friendly configuration process? > > > > Instead of being globbed at init time, etc/rc.d is a repository for > > things that take start/stop arguments. They are symlinked to > > /etc/init.d with numeric prefixes to control order at initialization > > time. Likewise, they can be symlinked to /etc/down.d (or shutdown.d) > > with numeric prefixes to control order at shutdown time. > > > > How about rather then separate directories, you prefix the symlink names > with 'S' for startup scripts and 'K' (for "kill") for shutdown scripts. Then, > you rename rc.d to rc3.d... I like it. It's clean and simple, almost to the point of being elegant. But why bother adding rc?.d if you are going to right it to handle s or k then the present home should be fine, no? > > > Ducks and runs, > > Kelly > > -- > Kelly Yancey - [EMAIL PROTECTED] - Belmont, CA > System Administrator, eGroups.com http://www.egroups.com/ > Maintainer, BSD Driver Database http://www.posi.net/freebsd/drivers/ > Coordinator, Team FreeBSD http://www.posi.net/freebsd/Team-FreeBSD/ > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message -- Cheers, Mikel +~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~+ | Optimized Computer Solutions, Inc http://www.ocsny.com | 39 W14th Street, Suite 203 212 727 2238 x132 | New York, NY 10011 +~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~+
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