On Monday 24 January 2005 12:42 pm, Jeremy C. Reed kindly wrote:
> NetBSD and FreeBSD for the past couple years use the NetBSD rc.d
> system.
>
> Have a look at
>
> http://www.netbsd.org/guide/en/chap-rc.html
>
> http://www.daemonnews.org/200108/rcdsystem.html
>
> http://www.mewburn.net/luke/talks/auug-2003/index.html
>
> http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/configtun
>ing-rcng.html
>
> Yes, you can still use the old BSD style, but the new system makes
> it easier to manage services. The old rc style is available on
> OpenBSD, FreeBSD 4.x and now-dead BSD/OS.
>
> I have used the new NetBSD rc.dt for a couple years on several of
> my Linux systems too. Here is my wife's computer:
>
> $ uname -s -r
> Linux 2.6.9
> $ ls /etc/rc.d
> DAEMON cupsd localnetwork mountcritremote slpd sysctl
> LOGIN dmesg modutils network slurpd syslogd
> NETWORKING fsck motd quota sshd ttys
> SERVERS kdm mountall root swap1 xdm
> apache klogd mountcritlocal slapd swap2
> $ /etc/rc.d/sshd status
> sshd is running as pid 15840.
> $ /etc/rc.d/xdm
> Usage: /etc/rc.d/xdm [fast|force](start stop restart rcvar reload
> status poll)
>
> Jeremy C. Reed
Thanks, Jeremy. I have read some of these articles and have the entire
NetBSD 2.0 user guide printed up, just waiting for a chance to
install and learn from it.
Siri Amrit
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