Subject: Re: rc.d
To: None <tech-userlevel@netbsd.org>
From: der Mouse <mouse@Rodents.Montreal.QC.CA>
List: tech-userlevel
Date: 03/14/2000 19:22:24
> What you are doing here is just looking at rc.subr, and saying "oh,
> that looks complicated".  But, scripts don't have to use it!

No, but the supplied ones that do are incomprehensible as a result.

Unless and until you go through this NetBSD-specific step of grokking
rc.subr.

Once again, I see the attitude of "it works, trust us, you don't have
to understand it".  I get enough of that from commercial vendors (in my
Real Job I do encounter commercial vendor OSes), and they're wrong
every time.

					der Mouse

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