In article <3398076F.1B8F131@us.oracle.com>,
	Thayne Harbaugh <tharbaug%alta.us.oracle.com@us.oracle.com> writes:
> What are the evils of /etc/rc.d?

None.

The problem is that is not so easy to understand but it is much more
powerful that NetBSD's startup method.

When I encountered it for the first time under Solaris I hated it. When
I encountered if for the second time under Linux (SuSE 4.2 distribution)
I still hated it until I took a close look at it and finally understood
it and particulary started to like it.

Some parts of it e.g. the "inittab" - at least Linux's one - or multiple
"rc.d" directories are really crap. But having multiple startup and
*shutdown* files - NetBSD still hasn't anything to shutdown your daemons
in a clean way - which are executed in a specific order is a nice thing.

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Matthias Scheler                                http://home.pages.de/~tron/