FYI....
Attached is a response I got from a friend that uses FreeBSD, or at least
follows the news group heavily. I don't use it myself.
Lou Hatton
lah4@pge.com
> ----------
> From: John Oram[SMTP:norami@unlimited.net]
> Reply To: norami@unlimited.net
> Sent: Wednesday, November 17, 1999 09:27
> To: Hatton, Louis A
> Subject: Re: FW: freeBSD startup
>
> Lou:
>
> As a general rule it seems to me this question should probably go to the
> support mailing list for FreeBSD <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG.> or
> maybe take a look at the BSD archieve search tool
> <http://minnie.cs.adfa.edu.au/BSD-info/bsdnews_search.html> to see if
> the problem/symptom has happened before to someone else.
>
> Unless what the person is trying to do that involves a "proprietary"
> application. Then the problem/symptoms should be sent to the developer
> of that particlular application.
>
> John O
>
> "Hatton, Louis A" wrote:
> >
> > fyi on your favorite system
> >
> > > ----------
> > > From: Velocet[SMTP:mathboy@velocet.ca]
> > > Sent: Tuesday, November 16, 1999 19:55
> > > To: nocol-users@navya.com
> > > Subject: freeBSD startup
> > >
> > > FreeBSD has a small problem with starting up programs that dont seem
> to
> > > close all their stdouts, even once redirected (this out of
> > > /usr/local/etc/rc.d
> > > and /etc/rc.local and the like). I am not quite sure of the details,
> just
> > > I know that things that dont do so seem not to be running by the time
> > > init enters the main runlevel. Thus, we have a problem when our nocol
> > > system reboots.
> > >
> > > Anyone else running nocol on freeBSD? How do you start it up?
> > >
> > > This is actually moot, because we should all have something to
> > > restart it from a crontab when one of the monitors goes down. Its
> > > good to only restart the relevant monitor otherwise we'll get paged
> > > with all the existing criticals again.
> > >
> > > What do you people use?
> > >
> > > /kc
> > > --
> > > Ken Chase, Director Operations Velocet Communications
> > > Inc.
> > > math@velocet.ca Toronto
> > > CANADA
> > > --
> > > "Sometimes two [harmless] words, when put together, strike fear in the
> > > hearts of men -- Microsoft Wallet." - Dave
> > > Gilbert
> > >
>
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