Date: Wed, 24 May 2000 10:34:10 -0500 From: Dan Nelson <dnelson@emsphone.com> To: Jan Grant <Jan.Grant@bristol.ac.uk> Cc: James Clifford <james.clifford@csom.net>, "Alagiya, Sudarsanan" <Sudarsanan.Alagiya@anchorgaming.com>, "'questions@FreeBSD.org'" <questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: SRC Message-ID: <20000524103410.A15527@dan.emsphone.com> In-Reply-To: <Pine.GHP.4.21.0005241612370.2554-100000@mail.ilrt.bris.ac.uk>; from "Jan Grant" on Wed May 24 16:17:12 GMT 2000 References: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0005231432360.21835-100000@euclid.base2.org> <Pine.GHP.4.21.0005241612370.2554-100000@mail.ilrt.bris.ac.uk>
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In the last episode (May 24), Jan Grant said: > 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. > 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. Note that these are two different things; runlevels, I think, have been agreed on as pretty much useless. A way to cleanly startup and shutdown the system (or parts of a system) with correct dependency handling is useful. I have never seen anyone on a SysV system actually use any runlevel except 3 (multiuser+network) and 5 (power off). What is done a lot, though, is running "/etc/init.d/arbitraryservice start|stop". -- Dan Nelson dnelson@emsphone.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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