On Mon, 23 Oct 2000, Brian O'Shea wrote:
>Sounds interesting. To add a new rc script to the system, do you have
>to add an entry to an "rc order list" somewhere (in addition to adding
>the new script)? How is that handled? The nice (or clumsy, depending
>on your point of view) part about the SysV way is that the order in
>which the rc scripts are executed is implicit in the scripts' names.
>Of course, they have added a symlink maze (worse, hard links on HP-UX)
>on top of that, making it tedious to maintain rc scripts by hand
>(maybe that was by design).
Hmm I don't have any NetBSD machines running the later 1.5 revisions
yet, so I've not seen the new scripts, but I would say that adding a new
script to a list of rc files would be much less hassle than adding an
entry in a monolithic /etc/rc to process that new file.
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