BSD Init

["Drews, Jonathan*" <DrewsJ@cder.fda.gov>]

> BSD-style init is an unmaintainable mess.  It's not simpler by *any* 
> stretch of the imagination.  It's actually *ridiculously* complicated
> compared to SysV init, which simply uses a bunch of symbolic links 
> to determine what gets started/stopped at any given runlevel.

 I don't think it is that bad really.  After all Apple uses FreeBSD as the
basis for their computers now in the form of OS X. So there must be some
merit to them. If you think *BSD init is hard wait to till you get clobbered
by Kudzu and ZeroConf. Have fun :).
 As for the compiling from source argument, Netcraft shows that FreeBSD runs
on 2.5 million sites on 5 million hostnames.
http://news.netcraft.com/archives/2004/06/07/nearly_25_million_active_sites_
running_freebsd.html
Compare that with 1,465,000 sites that run RedHat:
http://news.netcraft.com/
 So source compiles can't be that big an impediment. BTW it's possible to
package fetch on the *BSD's.

BTW way great tutorials here on the NetBSD rc.d system.
http://www.mewburn.net/luke/bibliography.html




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