On Fri, Dec 14, 2007 at 12:00:08PM -0800, David Brodbeck wrote: > On Dec 14, 2007, at 8:16 AM, Douglas A. Tutty wrote: > >No. There's a fundamental difference between FreeBSD and OpenBSD. > >FreeBSD seems to have an attitude to Linux as Linux has to Windows. > >Try to be like them and convert users by making configs easy. > >OpenBSD does nothing to convert users; it doesn't care about users. > >Its by developers for developers. Developers can write their own > >rc.local snippet. > > I'm sure that's a lot of it. But I think I should point out the > FreeBSD solution does more than let you avoid writing something in > rc.local. Adding a snippet in rc.local will get your daemon up all > right, but it provides no way to have your daemon shut down in an > orderly fashion the way FreeBSD's /usr/local/etc/rc.d/ setup does. > I've always thought this was the biggest shortcoming of BSD init vs. > SysV init. -- BSD init only solves half the problem. >
OpenBSD figures that most things are fine getting the global SIGTERM at shutdown. Anything that requires handholding needs a snippet added to rc.shutdown. Doug. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
