From owner-freebsd-ports Wed Sep 20 23:54:12 1995 Return-Path: owner-ports Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) id XAA27386 for ports-outgoing; Wed, 20 Sep 1995 23:54:12 -0700 Received: from irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de (irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de [141.76.1.11]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) with ESMTP id XAA27358 ; Wed, 20 Sep 1995 23:54:00 -0700 Received: from sax.sax.de by irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de (8.6.12/8.6.12-s1) with ESMTP id IAA03746; Thu, 21 Sep 1995 08:53:46 +0200 Received: by sax.sax.de (8.6.11/8.6.12-s1) with UUCP id IAA27877; Thu, 21 Sep 1995 08:53:46 +0200 Received: (from j@localhost) by uriah.heep.sax.de (8.6.12/8.6.9) id IAA14650; Thu, 21 Sep 1995 08:39:18 +0200 From: J Wunsch Message-Id: <199509210639.IAA14650@uriah.heep.sax.de> Subject: Re: ports startup scripts To: terry@lambert.org (Terry Lambert) Date: Thu, 21 Sep 1995 08:39:17 +0200 (MET DST) Cc: ports@freebsd.org, freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org (FreeBSD hackers) Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) In-Reply-To: <199509202303.QAA01795@phaeton.artisoft.com> from "Terry Lambert" at Sep 20, 95 04:03:21 pm X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL23] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Content-Length: 482 Sender: owner-ports@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk As Terry Lambert wrote: > > It requires the implementation of run levels. > > I personally *don't* find it objectionable. I will yet have to see a single SysV that handles all run-level transitions correctly. :-) 8 run-levels are IMVVVHO far too much to handle all permutations of them. 3 are better to handle (stop, single, multi). -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)