On Fri, Oct 24, 2014 at 12:41:39AM -0400, Barry Shein wrote:
All those init.d scripts do about 95% the same thing, all hacked together in shell. Most of them are probably just slightly edited versions of some few paleo-scripts.
in FreeBSD, the bulk of the rc.d scripts are basically the same format, inhaling a standardized library of functions, populating some variables, maybe adding a few custom functions, then jumping to "main". all largely driven off variables which have preset defaults in /etc/default/rc.conf, and over-ridden by /etc/rc.conf. something i saw in various linux systems, which i now see moving into FreeBSD, is the concept of the .d config directory, where the files in /etc/myapp.d are effectively concatenated to /etc/myapp.conf. this is quite nice from a sysadmin perspective, as you can set defaults in /etc/myapp.conf, and then over-ride them with server/environmental specific (and appropriately named) files in /etc/myapp.d/.... --jim -- Jim Mercer Reptilian Research jim@reptiles.org +1 416 410-5633 "He who dies with the most toys is nonetheless dead"