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

Tom Rhodes trhodes at FreeBSD.org
Fri Jun 22 13:06:31 UTC 2012


On Fri, 22 Jun 2012 09:02:44 +0200 (CEST)
Wojciech Puchar <wojtek at wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl> wrote:

> >> why adding solaris style command to add a line in text file. just edit a
> > text file.
> >>
> >
> > Scripting?
> 
> 
> 
> echo newserviceline >>file
> 
> grep -v servicetoberemoved file >file.new;mv file.new file
> 

Why have people edit yet another file to do process monitoring,
and have them kill hup a service just to have it work?  Not
very optimal I thought.

--
Tom Rhodes


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