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A comment on FreeBSD's init (rc.d) system. See also: rcorder(8).

Re:FreeBSD's init (rc.d) system. See also: rcorder(8) by RexRollman on Friday November 28, 2014 @09:53PM (#8672921)
Which came from NetBSD, IIRC.
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Re:FreeBSD's init (rc.d) system. See also: rcorder(8) by uselessdguy on Friday November 28, 2014 @10:38PM (#8673005)
Yes. 1.5, if my mind serves correctly. Later on, LSB tried to do something similar for sysvinit using initscript headers that were interpreted by an external insserv program, but these proved to be far more fragile compared to rcorder(8).
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Re:FreeBSD's init (rc.d) system. See also: rcorder(8) by Freaky on Friday November 28, 2014 @10:38PM (#8673003)
Yep, aka rcNG: https://www.usenix.org/legacy/events/usenix01/freenix01/full...
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