On Mon, 23 Oct 2000, David O'Brien wrote:

Thanks, I was gonna go find those after I finished what I was doing, but you've saved me a few keystrokes. =)

I like the concept of them quite a bit. I think it definitely shows some thought on how to keep the advantages of each system. I would support a move toward a system like this. One thing that would be nice is a database somewhere of which of services from /etc/rc.d are running. This would enable one to build a nice GUI or curses based tool for showing the services running, and allowing for the stopping, starting, and restarting of those services. Basically just add a feature such that after a service is started, the pid is written to a universally standard directory for all rc controlled services. That would be sufficient. It would then be nice to write such a tool, manipulatable either via command line options or an interactive curses mode, which would manage those services. Sort of the equivalent of SysV's chkconfig command, but actually useful. =) So that one could say: rccntl amd restart or just run rccntrl and get a curses window displaying the services in /etc/rc.d currently started and possibly another window showing those not started, and the option to move a service from one list to the other, thereby starting to stopping it, as well the option to just restart it.

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