Subject: Re: Updating /etc...
To: None <current-users@NetBSD.ORG>
From: Robert Black <r.black@ic.ac.uk>
List: current-users
Date: 12/20/1995 11:38:43
On Dec 19, 12:54pm, Michael Graff wrote:
> Subject: Re: Updating /etc...
>
> >However, /etc/init.d just makes things really easy for the machine in
> >some ways, fails to solve the ordering problem, and makes things
> >really unpleasant for humans.
>
> I don't see how it causes problems for humans.  If you want to modify
> the startup of foo, you edit /etc/init.d/foo.  That seems easier to me
> than editing one massive file.
>
>
> I do not like /etc/init.d though. I would perfer /etc/sysstart/ or
> something like that.  Something non SYSVish.  ;)

I would prefer /etc/init.d iff the functionality is identical to the SYSV
/etc/init.d - no point having a different name if its the same thing and having
the same name if its something else would just be confusing.

Cheers

Rob Black

--