From owner-freebsd-current Thu Sep 17 07:54:20 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id HAA19094 for freebsd-current-outgoing; Thu, 17 Sep 1998 07:54:20 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from fourier.physics.purdue.edu (fourier.physics.purdue.edu [128.210.146.43]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id HAA19011 for ; Thu, 17 Sep 1998 07:53:57 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jonsmith@fourier.physics.purdue.edu) Received: from localhost (jonsmith@localhost) by fourier.physics.purdue.edu (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id JAA07237; Thu, 17 Sep 1998 09:53:00 GMT (envelope-from jonsmith@fourier.physics.purdue.edu) Date: Thu, 17 Sep 1998 09:53:00 +0000 (GMT) From: Jonathan Smith To: Alfred Perlstein cc: Martin Cracauer , current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Proposed change to rc.d startup In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message