On Tue, April 11, 2017 4:41 pm, Warren Young wrote: > On Apr 11, 2017, at 11:28 AM, Scott Robbins <scottro11 at gmail.com> wrote: >> >> (though they're talking of trying OpenRC) > > Not just talking. TrueOS, neé PC-BSD, now runs on OpenRC. > > So let me tell you about how my recent TrueOS server upgrade broke > virtually all of my services on the TrueOS server, roached the X > configuration, and now has the system in an un-upgradeable state, to the > point that it’s looking like I’ll have to reinstall if I ever want to > install software from pkg again. > > Oh, and let’s also talk about how FreeBSD has been training people to > run services via direct /etc/rc.d/$service script calls, but now you must > use rc-service calls, with no graceful fallback. Got scripts calling the > old style scripts? Too bad. All systems suck. And thanks to that I got my job. Valeri > > The grass isn’t always greener on the other side of the fence. ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Valeri Galtsev Sr System Administrator Department of Astronomy and Astrophysics Kavli Institute for Cosmological Physics University of Chicago Phone: 773-702-4247 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++