Replacing rc(8) (Was: FreeBSD Boot Times)

[Outback Dingo]

On Fri, Jun 15, 2012 at 8:48 AM, Atte Peltomäki <atte.peltomaki at iki.fi> wrote:
> On Thu, Jun 14, 2012 at 02:09:38PM -0400, Richard Yao wrote:
>> Also, I am certain that the OpenRC developers would be thrilled if
>> FreeBSD adopted OpenRC. If FreeBSD core is interested in OpenRC, feel
>> free to contact the OpenRC and/or the Gentoo FreeBSD developers. We
>> would all love to see OpenRC in upstream FreeBSD.
>
> Replacing rc(8) has a lot of risks and not many benefits. Current system
> is somewhat limited, but it works, it's simple to understand and
> everyone already knows it and uses it.
>
> Solaris SMF is by far the most advanced bootup/service manager I've come
> across, even though it's UI is somewhat irritating. When configured
> correctly, you can trust SMF to deal with any problem; when a needed
> resource for a given service is down, that service isn't started. When
> the service is malfunctioning, it's restarted at a configured interval
> or marked as malfunctioning and stopped and admin is contacted. And so
> forth. Faster boot times come as a simple added bonus from proper
> design.
>
> Anyone serious about replacing rc(8) should take a good look at SMF
> feature list, then decide if such a thing is worth spending time
> reimplementing. Doing a dozen half-assed implementations like Linux is
> doing is just dumb and aggravates sysadmins.
>
> Personally, as much as I like power of SMF, I think FreeBSD devs have
> much more important (and interesting) things to do.
>

Theres  always Launchd also.........

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> Atte Peltomäki
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