Re: HEADS UP: /etc/rc.shutdown calls local scripts now

2000-07-06 Thread Linh Pham


> In the last episode (Jul 06), Thomas Gellekum said:
> > sorry for the late notice, I forgot to mail this yesterday.
> > 
> > /etc/rc.shutdown in -current has been changed to call the scripts in
> > ${local_startup} with the `stop' option. This allows packages like
> > databases to call their own shutdown methods and clean up after
> > themselves. All the ports have been changed accordingly. If you still
> > have old startup scripts lying around in /usr/{local,X11R6}/etc/rc.d
> > you should upgrade these ASAP.
> 
> Can we have little green "[ OK ]"s as well? :)
> 
> j/k

I hope you are joking... LOL... We don't want Linux emulation to go in
that direction.

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Re: HEADS UP: /etc/rc.shutdown calls local scripts now

2000-07-06 Thread Linh Pham

On Thu, 6 Jul 2000, David Scheidt wrote:

> On Thu, 6 Jul 2000, Linh Pham wrote:
> 
> :> 
> :> Can we have little green "[ OK ]"s as well? :)
> :> 
> :> j/k
> :
> :I hope you are joking... LOL... We don't want Linux emulation to go in
> :that direction.
> 
> 
> HP/UX does something like this.  I find it rather useful, but that may be
> because I have boxes that take almost an hour to boot

An hour to boot? Boy... the only time I ever saw a machine take an hour to
boot (which does not include the POST/memory check/BIOS screen) was a
486SX/33 with 24MB of RAM running Windows NT 3.51 SP3. Of course it was
running off of a 5 1/4" 400MB SCSI hard drive too!

> 
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> David
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