On Sat, Jul 08, 2000 at 02:07:28PM -0600, W . Suika Roberts wrote:
> With 1.5, it seems, someone has had the bright idea of shifting to a
> SYSVish mess of scripts to replace the nice, simple, easy to configure,
> single rc script I've come to appreciate over the last couple years.
> 
> Could someone explain the logic of this?

From the point of view of added software and removing software to a
group of machines, it is far easier to have a script for each service. 

From what I've seen of the NetBSD rc.d directory, it isn't a mess (well
not as much of a mess as on a SysV system anyway *grin*). IIRC there is a 
binary which works out what order to run the scripts in. 

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