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Old 01-16-2008, 09:36 AM
Dimitri Maziuk
 
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Default Re: Are Services an improvement?

Logan Shaw sez:
> Dimitri Maziuk 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.

>
> I agree that just a monolithic shell script is simple at first, but what
> happens when you try to maintain it?


You missed the X-sarcasm tags.
HTH

Dima
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