greek_philosophizer@hotmail.com sez:
> Now that Solaris is migrating the init
> scripts to "services",
> I am wondering if they are
> an improvement.
>
> UNIX originally was characterized as simple and elegant.

If by "simple and elegant" you're referring to /etc/rc.boot script,
then no, services are definitely not an improvement over a single
monolithic shell script.


....I suppose it might turn out
> to be useful to centralize the administration of
> startup processes.

Yeah, apparently it kinda did, when they tried it all those years ago.

Dima
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