In comp.unix.solaris Dimitri Maziuk <dima@127.0.0.1> wrote:
> 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.

Depends on your metric...

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