On Tue, Jun 18, 2002 at 11:23:38AM -0700, Doug Barton wrote:

Not so. At least, I hope not. At the very least, I look forward to being able to tell people "Yes, you can stop/start/restart any service with 'sh /etc/rc.d/<service>.sh stop|start|restart"

In addition, the way the sysadmin moves things around in the boot order will change. Instead of editing /etc/rc*, you change some comments in some shell scripts.

If I want to find out *why* things started in a particular order I now run rcorder(8).

Doubtless there are others.

So, not only does the project's documentation have to change, but so does all the internal documentation maintained by companies that are using FreeBSD that describes how to do things to their FreeBSD systems.

[ Now multiply this by every change that's going in to 5.x that won't have a backward compatible implementation ]

These changes take time to make. And throwing up yet another bar in the adoption of 5.x is a *bad thing*.

This is about to become a wider discussion that rc_ng. So I'll stop here, and kick off a new thread.

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