Date: Wed, 19 May 1999 08:55:57 -0400 (EDT) From: Matt Behrens <matt@zigg.com> To: Yiorgos Adamopoulos <adamo@dblab.ece.ntua.gr> Cc: Michael Robinson <robinson@netrinsics.com>, freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Astonishingly stupid question Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.10.9905190854350.5548-100000@megaweapon.zigg.com> In-Reply-To: <19990519155014.A1803@dblab.ece.ntua.gr>
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On Wed, 19 May 1999, Yiorgos Adamopoulos wrote: : On Wed, May 19, 1999 at 05:22:56PM +0800, Michael Robinson wrote: : > anything go horribly wrong if that person replaced /sbin/init with something : > like a properly configured Python interpreter and rebooted the system? : IIRC, init is the first thing executed by the kernel (that is why it has PID : 1). : : I think everything will go horribly bad- but if you can spare a system, why : don't you try it? I imagine (since I don't have a spare system) :-) that essentially, your new init will just happily come up in a single-user, console-only, read-only filesystem mode, and be happy doing so. After all, boot -s just runs /sbin/init instead of /bin/sh, right? Matt Behrens <matt@zigg.com> Owner/Administrator, zigg.com Chief Engineer, Nameless IRC Network To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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