Date: Thu, 17 Sep 1998 09:53:00 +0000 (GMT) From: Jonathan Smith <jonsmith@fourier.physics.purdue.edu> To: Alfred Perlstein <bright@hotjobs.com> Cc: Martin Cracauer <cracauer@cons.org>, current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Proposed change to rc.d startup Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.96.980917095018.7225B-100000@fourier.physics.purdue.edu> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.96.980917090912.17139B-100000@bright.fx.genx.net>
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I was working on a linux box, fully installed, just needed some options in
X set for the user who was awaiting the box. I failed to connect an
ethernet line to the box at startup (one wasn't available). Sendmail
locked the system, and never unlocked. Granted that a linux bug; however,
I could not abort sendmail. That is a valuable option I like to have on
my Unix boxes. Something goes boom, it let's me fix it without booting
single user and executing everything else _but_ that line.
Just food for thought........
j.
"Executing 'get the hell out of here' maneuver."
Mister Lennier, Babylon 5
"Mach was dich wuenschen."
Die Unendliche Geschichte, von Michael Ende
"Do as you wish."
The Neverending Story, by Michael Ende
The Microsoft Soloution, "newfs && make reinstall"
Jon C. Smith (765)49-48628 PHYS 31h
jonsmith@fourier.physics.purdue.edu
1396 Physics Building, West lafayette
Purdue Univesity, Indiana 47906-1396
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