site_archiver@lists.apple.com Delivered-To: darwin-dev@lists.apple.com On 23/5/06 7:03, Dan Shoop <shoop@iwiring.net> wrote: And if you think that the rc.d mechanism used so commonly today is an improvement or so great try answering the following common question: "what letter/number/name should I make my rc file to start up X? Which rc directory should it go under?" Such mechanisms are a huge step backwards and unbelievably fragile. It is interesting that Sun also came to the same conclusion, and replaced it with their Service Management Framework (SMF) in Solaris 10. Has anyone compared launchd with SMF? Is there anything SMF does better than launchd? -- Garance Alistair Drosehn = gad@gilead.netel.rpi.edu Senior Systems Programmer or gad@freebsd.org Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute or drosih@rpi.edu _______________________________________________ Do not post admin requests to the list. They will be ignored. Darwin-dev mailing list (Darwin-dev@lists.apple.com) Help/Unsubscribe/Update your Subscription: http://lists.apple.com/mailman/options/darwin-dev/site_archiver%40lists.appl... At 7:12 PM +0100 5/23/06, Chris Ridd wrote: Having watched a few hundred messages go by on this topic, and having read maybe 1/3 of them, I was surprised to find an interesting question in the babbling stream. I have no idea of SMF, but we (at RPI, where I work) do intend to be moving to solaris 10 on some machines this summer. What does SMF do? How does that work? Are all the /etc/rc scripts gone? This email sent to site_archiver@lists.apple.com