buffer-overflowed's Journal: Gah... We hates flat file inits

Seriously, WTF?

This crap is the biggest reason why I hate Slackware. In a sane init system, to disable a service in a runlevel, cd to it, mv SXXdaemon sXXdaemon, boom, done. And you can quickly see that it's turned off. No need to open up a friggin file that contains ALL of the init scripts(or executes em, yay! a workaround to part of the annoyance!) to figure out what's what. One quick look. Done.

God how I hate that style of init.

but

[blinder]

when can we eliminate clunky relational databases and go back to munging data the way god intended? flat files?

stupid databases and your DBA nonsense. ASCII files! what? are we all too good for our flat files?

Re:but

[pythorlh]

Blinder... what happened to www.minusonezine.org? I'm getting a DNS error.

i likes 'em

[nocomment]

I much prefer them. I don't even like xinetd. I like the good ol' fashioned rc.local. :-D

'course I'm an OpenBSD nerd.

Re:i likes 'em

[buffer-overflowed]

I don't get it.

I can use em, but PREFER them? When it takes so more effort to actually use them and there's no real advantage to doing so....

Are you one of those 6-armed emacs freaks?

Re:i likes 'em

[nocomment]

hehe, it's cleaner, no S**, K** files to worry about. Just put it in an rc.local file and you're done. How does it take more effort to use? There's less files to muck with.

Re:i likes 'em

[nizo]

I have no idea why this got posted as anonymous coward, I didn't check the Post Anon box wtf?

Re:i likes 'em

[buffer-overflowed]

Ehh... it's easier to modify individual services AND leave a record of what you changed. You want to disable something on runlevel 2? One to two commands, mv /etc/rc2.d/S**[blah] /etc/rc2.d/s**[Blah] and if you want it killed on switching a cp /etc/rc2.d/s**[Blah] /etc/rc2.d/K**[Blah]. Bang, done, and any other admin can see what it originally was w/o having to put in comments in a script file.

Want to add a service in? ln -sf /etc/init.d/[blah] /etc/rc2.d/S**[blah]. Done.

The work in setting up startup

I dunno...

[mekkab]

I find all that cd to this folder and that folder confusing; ESPECIALLY for the snmp crap in slackware. I dimly recall having to set the same thing in a couple of different places; just because I wasn't sure which one was THE RIGHT PLACE.

My mind is simple; I like it all in one place. That whole /etc/passwd, /etc/shadow stupidity always pissed me off. Obviously, I'm a shitty admin and you know it.

Hey- OT: Do you have a line on any entry level (*I guess) Baltimore tech jobs? I think my little cousin just

Re:I dunno...

[buffer-overflowed]

I'm out of the area, out of the IT industry(slingin' double-deuces), in Stephens City, VA, the ass end of NOVA(and it's only NOVA because it happens to be in northern virginia, actual NOVA people don't consider it NOVA).

There's plenty of stuff in Ballmer though.

I'm a sadddd panda. :P

Re:I dunno...

[mekkab]

damn... well, at least it ain't West Virginia (but dAAAAMN its close!)

If a 2 bedroom condo doesn't cost $500k, then you aren't in NOVA. Thank god.