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

[David Brodbeck]

On Thu, Jun 21, 2012 at 5:13 AM, Chris Rees <utisoft at gmail.com> wrote:
> Your arrogance is astounding.
>
> Did you read man hier? Unfamiliarity does not make it incomprehensible.

There's more going on than just unfamiliarity.  Earlier versions were
unfamiliar to someone used to Linux or BSD, but easy to understand
because they were mostly configured by flat files.  Modern Solaris has
deliberately moved away from this and toward opaque configuration
tools that modify stuff you aren't supposed to touch, behind the
scenes.  It's a bit like Windows that way; it's made it easier to
manage if you're doing something pre-configured (like
starting/stopping an existing service), but if you want to do
something custom you have to do a *lot* of digging to figure out how
to make it work.  Some of the new stuff (like NWAM network
configuration) is not even configurable without a GUI.

-- 
David Brodbeck
System Administrator, Linguistics
University of Washington