From owner-freebsd-questions Wed May 24 8:17:26 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from dire.bris.ac.uk (dire.bris.ac.uk [137.222.10.60]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6633237BC74 for ; Wed, 24 May 2000 08:17:23 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from Jan.Grant@bristol.ac.uk) Received: from mail.ilrt.bris.ac.uk by dire.bris.ac.uk with SMTP-PRIV with ESMTP; Wed, 24 May 2000 16:17:13 +0100 Received: from localhost (cmjg@localhost) by mail.ilrt.bris.ac.uk (8.8.7/8.8.8) with ESMTP id QAA19463; Wed, 24 May 2000 16:17:12 +0100 (BST) Date: Wed, 24 May 2000 16:17:12 +0100 (BST) From: Jan Grant To: James Clifford Cc: Jan Grant , "Alagiya, Sudarsanan" , "'questions@FreeBSD.org'" Subject: Re: SRC In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Tue, 23 May 2000, James Clifford wrote: > Forgive my ignorance, but what are the advantages of runlevels? I know > that Linux has them, but I'd never noticed the lack of them in FreeBSD > until you mentioned it. A high-level and granular control over the services you're running is something you don't miss until you've been exposed to it; unfortunately, after that you (at least, I) do tend to notice it's not there. The SRC stuff from AIX is a case in point; admittedly, however, there it's a case of IBM wrapping something vaguely unix-flavoured around their one true OS :-) You might have a look at the page I was referred to recently when I queried the lack of structured shutdown scripts to mirror the startup ones; the feature list there reads pretty much like the service managers from any unix you pay for. jan PS. Don't get me wrong; I'm not being intentionally belligerent or knocking fbsd for the sake of it. -- jan grant, ILRT, University of Bristol. http://www.ilrt.bris.ac.uk/ Tel +44(0)117 9287163 Fax +44 (0)117 9287112 RFC822 jan.grant@bris.ac.uk Unfortunately, I have a very good idea how fast my keys are moving. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message