On Mon, Feb 16, 2004 at 01:07:59PM -0800, Alfred Perlstein wrote: > I just opened /etc/rc.d/nfslocking and had no clue as to what it does. > > There is not a single comment explaining the logic. > > Would it be possible for some amount of comments to be added? > > (honestly I've had an easier time tracking down what SYSV init > scripts do) > The rc.d scripts have a lot of stuff that is done automagically. You should read rc(8) and rc.subr(8). Those two man pages almost completely document the general rc.d mechanism. I say "almost" because some newer routines in /etc/rc.subr are not documented in the man page yet, and because some individual scripts that offer extra functionality (like rc.d/netif) are not documented yet. While there are some small things that should probably be documented in rc.d/nfslocking if you have read those two man pages it should be very easy to figure out. The main difference from other rc.d scripts is that it is used to start several daemons, instead of just one (I will comment that shortly). I don't mean to suggest that rc.d is as well documented as it ought to be. But, I do think it is well documented enough that anyone who has read the man pages should be able to understand the individual scripts. We do accept suggestions for improvement and we do try to document stuff as we go along, but this is, after all, a volunteer effort and we suffer from the same time and monetary (i.e. day job) constraints as everyone else in the project. Cheers. -- Mike Makonnen | GPG-KEY: http://www.identd.net/~mtm/mtm.asc mtm_at_identd.net | Fingerprint: AC7B 5672 2D11 F4D0 EBF8 5279 5359 2B82 7CD4 1F55 mtm_at_FreeBSD.Org| FreeBSD - Unleash the Daemon !Received on Tue Feb 17 2004 - 22:47:14 UTC
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