On Wed, Jun 20, 2012 at 8:51 AM, Wojciech Puchar <[email protected]> wrote: > Some time ago i had to use linux (fortunately no longer needed). As i don't > use it normally i just took debian installer that i remembered it WAS > usable. > > After seeing the incredible complexity of /etc structure, not just rc > scripts, i deleted most of it and put startup sequence in single file. > > It was plain horror.
You would weep if you saw Solaris's SMF, then. Everything is controlled by XML files, which you have to install and uninstall via the black-box 'svcadm' and 'svcs' commands. It's the most opaque init system I've ever seen. Lots of neat features, but I never feel confident I'm dealing with it right, especially when trying to implement a new service. rc.d-style init scripts aren't *that* bad, but some of the new parallel init systems are quite confusing. I recently spent most of a day trying to figure out why Ubuntu wouldn't launch a new rc script I'd installed before realizing that the parallel init system it uses simply silently ignores scripts that don't indicate their dependencies in a way it understands. -- David Brodbeck System Administrator, Linguistics University of Washington _______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[email protected]"
