From owner-freebsd-stable Wed May 19 5:56:30 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from megaweapon.zigg.com (megaweapon.zigg.com [206.114.60.8]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B23AA14C8C for ; Wed, 19 May 1999 05:56:20 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from matt@zigg.com) Received: from localhost (matt@localhost) by megaweapon.zigg.com (8.9.3/8.9.2) with ESMTP id IAA05557; Wed, 19 May 1999 08:55:58 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from matt@zigg.com) Date: Wed, 19 May 1999 08:55:57 -0400 (EDT) From: Matt Behrens To: Yiorgos Adamopoulos Cc: Michael Robinson , freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Astonishingly stupid question In-Reply-To: <19990519155014.A1803@dblab.ece.ntua.gr> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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 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