On Wed, Oct 30, 2002 at 02:23:48PM -0800, Tim Kientzle wrote: > Gordon Tetlow wrote: > > >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, ... "/etc/rc.d/nfsd stop" does > >>not actually stop the nfsd process. ... > > > >... I've found this behavior to be quite annoying. I'll > >see if I can put something together. If you want to help me out and > >put together the patches, I'd be more than happy to commit them. > > > I have something partly sketched out, but > it still needs some work. I can > send you something in the next > couple of days to look at. > > I see two awkward issues: > > * Is it necessary to distinguish 'stop' > (unconditional stop) from 'shutdown' > (stop only if enabled)?? > > Seems that at system shutdown you want > everything to be taken down, regardless > of whether it was brought up at boot > or brought up manually post-boot. > The unconditional 'stop' seems to be > all that's needed.
I agree, but can you make it use shutdown and just alias it to stop? This will be just in case we see a new need for a special shutdown case. > * Local rc scripts (in /usr/local/etc/rc.d) > will still get run with a 'start' > argument, while system scripts in > /etc/rc.d will get a 'boot' argument. > That's a bit awkward, but still > reasonably consistent: 'start' > is still an unconditional operation. That's fine. No big deal there. -gordon
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