Re: configuration files

[Robert Garrett <rg70@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Matthew Dillon wrote:

> 
> :    We already have start/stop/restart/rcvar support though quite a few
> :    of the RCNG files only support 'start'.
> :
> :    You know, it occurs to me that we could augment RCNG to record
> :    subsystem status in the kernel environment and write a little shell
> :    script for /sbin which allows you to issue start/stop/restart/rcvar
> :    commands for particular RCNG files (rather then have to type 'cd
> :    /etc/rc.d; sh ./blah stop').
> :
> :    e.g. something like this:
> :
> :    rcng start <blah>                Start entity
> :    rcng stop <blah>         Stop entity
> :    rcng restart <blah>              Restart entity
> :    rcng rcvar <blah>                List rcvars associated with entity
> :    rcng list                        List all entities and their current run status
> :
> :    So for example:
> :
> :    rcng sendmail restart
> :
> :    In fact, I think this would be extremely useful, and so easy that I
> :    think I can work it up in an hour or two with only minor changes to
> :    the kernel to support kenv -w var=blah to record the current
> :    subsystem status.
> :
> :-Matt
> 
>    Even less then an hour.  This is very cool... I won't use kenv, that's
>    too nasty.  I'll use our varsym support to record RCNG module status.
>    I've already written the script, I just have to modify the RCNG files
>    to record the status and incorporate the dependancy list and we will
>    have a very, very powerful run-time system management tool.
> 
> -Matt
> Matthew Dillon
> <dillon@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Matt,

   Anybody told you, that your awesome lately.

Rob