John R Pierce wrote:
> Les Mikesell wrote:
>> I'd consider starting things at boot time to be as unrelated as you can
>> get. There's next to nothing in common between bsd and sysV oriented
>> systems (I think the ones you mention are mostly sysV-ish). And the ftp
>> config concepts go with the choice of the application, which varies even
>> more wildly.
>>
>
> Indeed, when I had to set some stuff up on an AIX 5.3 server a few years
> back, the BSD style init scripts rather threw me. It was almost as if
> there was just an rc.local.
>
> And, going in the other direction, the Service Manager Facility in
> Solaris 10 is completely different, using XML service manifests, with
> monitor scripts, service properties, and a sophisticated dependency
> system so a service *can't* be started until all its dependencies are
> running.
People who are hopelessly locked in to a single flavor by some earlier
choice of tools or hardware may not even understand why and how much of
a problem this lack of standardization is. Even though perl and
bourne-compatible shell scripts may have matching syntax across these
platforms, anything dealing with automating system administration is
generally doomed to failure.
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