Subject: Re: On the proposal to augment NetBSD startup (/etc/rc*/*/*...) system
To: Luke Mewburn <lukem@goanna.cs.rmit.edu.au>
From: Julian Assange <proff@iq.org>
List: tech-userlevel
Date: 12/05/1999 17:38:48
Luke Mewburn <lukem@goanna.cs.rmit.edu.au> writes:

> Michael Graff writes:
> > One thing the init.d method doesn't fix, however, is the problem of
> > options.  Or is there a /etc/config.d associated with these things?
> 
> What doesn't rc.conf provide in this case? I.e, rc.conf provides this!
> 
> PS: I have considered an /etc/config/ (a la IRIX), but that's
> orthogonal to this issue.

ps. one further suggestion to /etc/rc hackers. please. please. please,
support full logging of rc output to the disk. Remote debugging of rc
sequences is nigh-impossible as rc currently stands.

-- 
Stefan Kahrs in [Kah96] discusses the
   notion of completeness--programs which never go wrong can be
   type-checked--which complements Milner's notion of
   soundness--type-checked programs never go wrong [Mil78].