Extend the rc interface for configuration

Florent Thoumie flz at xbsd.org
Mon Mar 27 11:17:52 UTC 2006


On Sun, 2006-03-26 at 17:41 +0200, Dirk Engling wrote:

> Dear rc-hackers,
> 
> in my understanding the rc.d interface is a generic abstraction of
> common actions you want to perform on server software.
> 
> When administrating lots of servers of different type I stumbled accross
> many configuration actions that were similar, for example
> adding/removing virtual hosts and users for my mail/ web/ ftp/ name/
> jabber-server, configuring ports, logfiles, ssl-ports + certs/ keys etc.

I think it doesn't belong to rc.subr. Think of it as a set of common
routines to start/stop services.

-- 
Florent Thoumie
flz at FreeBSD.org
FreeBSD Committer



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