Benny wrote:

> Phil Tomson wrote:

>>question: could the ruby-based init system be used with *BSD as well?

> why not? as I far as I know FreeBSD 5.x switched to the NetBSD init-system
> which is more flexible than the old one and more similar to the linux one.
> but I'm currently not so deep in the knowledge of init-systems (using 4.9
> at the moment).

I know we're veering OT but the NetBSD rc system knocks spots of Linuxs'
horrible 'runlevel/S91apache' SysV bodge.

See:

http://www.netbsd.org/guide/en/chap-rc.html

and Luke Mewburns paper on rcorder linked at the bottom of that page in
particular.