On Dec 14, 2007, at 8:16 AM, Douglas A. Tutty wrote:
No. There's a fundamental difference between FreeBSD and OpenBSD.FreeBSD seems to have an attitude to Linux as Linux has to Windows. Try to be like them and convert users by making configs easy. OpenBSD doesnothing to convert users; it doesn't care about users. Its by developers for developers. Developers can write their own rc.local snippet.
I'm sure that's a lot of it. But I think I should point out the FreeBSD solution does more than let you avoid writing something in rc.local. Adding a snippet in rc.local will get your daemon up all right, but it provides no way to have your daemon shut down in an orderly fashion the way FreeBSD's /usr/local/etc/rc.d/ setup does. I've always thought this was the biggest shortcoming of BSD init vs. SysV init. -- BSD init only solves half the problem.