[Initng] We need to tie /etc/initng

[Ismael Luceno]

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Eric MSP Veith escribió:
> I agree with you, the net/ folder perfectly fits into system/, as Unix boxes 
> are network boxes anyway. :-)
> 
> Once we've tied the system/ folder, we should change the names/pourposes of 
> the services in there as little as possible while only adjusting/tweaking the 
> contents of the files. I.e. people should trust that system/mountfs stays 
> there, is not renamed and it's pourpose stays the same, only the code gets 
> bugfixed and tuned.
> 
> So we get:
> 
> daemon/    only for daemons,
> system/	   services essential for system startup and scripts responsible 
>            for establishing, maintaining and closing network connections

Well, as i said before, network stuff is somewhat special, however we
may move it into system/network/, but things like daemon/dhcpcd or
daemon/pppoe will not be moved there.

> services/  place for services that aren't essential for system bootup,
> 	   i.e. "the rest",
> runlevel/  runlevels,
> config/    initng specific configuration files (for configuring     
>            daemons/services, as /etc/sysconfig or /etc/conf.d do)
> 
> 	Eric
> 
> ------ Original Message ------
> Sender: Jens Persson <xerxes2 at gmail.com>
> Recipient: initng at initng.org
> Date: Thursday 08 February 2007 02:47
> Subject: Re: [Initng] We need to tie /etc/initng
> 
>>> I agree too. That may also work as a warning bell for the devs that no
>>> lazy coding is accepted in system. And maybe we can ditch net and only
>>> have daemon, system and service. The net stuff could then be put in
>>> system as most boxes needs a network connection to be useful and to be
>>> updated. Just a thought.
>>>
>>> Felipe Balbi wrote:
>>>> I agree with Ismael,
>>>>
>>>> This way it could be possible to kind of freeze the system folder once
>>>> we know all the services we have to setup on boot time...
>>>>
>>>> On 2/5/07, Ismael Luceno <ismael.luceno at gmail.com> wrote:
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>>>>> Eric MSP Veith escribió:
>>>>>> It could be slightly confusing when to put a script into service/ and
>>>>>> when into system/ - some services might be essential for certain
>>>>>> configurations, but for others not.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Perhaps we shouldn't distinguish between service/ and system/ and keep
>>>>>> only the service/ directory as it is a nice visible contrast to
>>>>>> daemon/.
>>>>> With essential I mean that the system can't boot without it, or it's
>>>>> low-level (like hdparm).
>>>>>
>>>>> For example, things like issue.i, aumix.i, and anacron.i will go to
>>>>> service/, while others like udev.i will go to system/.
>>>>>
>>>>>>       Eric
>>>>>>
>>>>>> ------ Original Message ------
>>>>>> Sender: Ismael Luceno <ismael.luceno at gmail.com>
>>>>>> Recipient: InitNG ML <initng at initng.org>
>>>>>> Date: Monday 05 February 2007 18:25
>>>>>> Subject: [Initng] We need to tie /etc/initng
>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> We have services in daemon/ and other nasty things, so it's time to
>>>>>>>> tie it.
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> What I want:
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> daemon/   : only for daemons
>>>>>>>> service/  : all those services that aren't essential for the system
>>>>>>>> system/   : system services/daemons
>>>>>>>> runlevel/ : for runlevels
>>>>>>>> config/   : for initng-specific config files, and may help to support
>>>>>>>>             unknown distros ;)
>>>>> 
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