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OpenPKG breaks with a few things from the good old Unix days. Why?

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OpenPKG breaks with a few things from the good old Unix days. Why?

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Maybe you are thinking of the OpenPKG run-command (RC) system or the fact that tools and configuration files sometimes are located at unusual filesystem paths. The implemented run-command facility is partly modeled after the classical UNIX™ System V run-command facility plus ideas taken from the FreeBSD and NetBSD run-command facilities. It mainly merges the classical startup/shutdown procedures with periodical procedures into a single approach. For details read “openpkg man rc”. The common task of log file rotation is explained in “openpkg man shtool-rotate” with the man page being part of the shtool package. In general OpenPKG follows the philosophy “keep it simple, stupid” (KISS) and “principle of least astonishment” (POLA). If something can be done more orthogonally then OpenPKG prefers the consistent and clean approach in favor following administrative habits. Some de-facto standards had to be broken as result of creating the unique multi-instance feature of OpenPKG.

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