cvs commit: src/etc rc.subr

Roman Divacky rdivacky at FreeBSD.org
Fri Jan 25 10:03:39 PST 2008


On Fri, Jan 25, 2008 at 10:30:39AM -0700, Scott Long wrote:
> Roman Divacky wrote:
> >On Fri, Jan 25, 2008 at 11:05:46AM -0600, Brooks Davis wrote:
> >>On Fri, Jan 25, 2008 at 09:47:43AM -0700, Scott Long wrote:
> >>>Mike Makonnen wrote:
> >>>>mtm         2008-01-25 16:44:34 UTC
> >>>>  FreeBSD src repository
> >>>>  Modified files:
> >>>>    etc                  rc.subr   Log:
> >>>>  Backout previous commit. It's going to clutter the console
> >>>>  during boot and shutdown. I think I'll hide it behind autoboot or
> >>>>  maybe take brooks@ suggestion and implement a different command
> >>>>  prefix for booting/shutdown purposes, but in any case it needs more
> >>>>  thought and attention.
> >>>>    Noticed by: ceri
> >>>>  Pointyhat to: mtm
> >>>>    Revision  Changes    Path
> >>>>  1.79      +0 -3      src/etc/rc.subr
> >>>In any case, I think you're on a good track.  I can't tell you how many 
> >>>times I've pulled my hair out from typing "/etc/rc.d/foo start" at the
> >>>command line and having nothing at all happen as a response.
> >>The one that continually messes me up is disabling nagios in
> >>/etc/rc.conf during maintance and then doing "/usr/local/etc/rc.d/nagios
> >>stop" and forgetting that it doen't do anything so I get individual
> >>notices about all 352 cluster nodes going down. :(
> >
> >semantically foo_enable="YES" could permit "stop" action because I don't
> >see any logical contradiction in stopping a service that is not enabled...
> >
> >just my 2 cents :)
> >
> >roman
> 
> Be that as it may, fixing the system to provide feedback to interactive 
> users is a good thing.
> 
> Scott

sure.. my suggestion is orthogonal to this, it just happens to be
from the same bucket


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