From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Mar 17 18: 7:45 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from web4-1.ability.net (web4-1.ability.net [216.32.69.9]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7CA4A1530F for ; Wed, 17 Mar 1999 18:07:26 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from rich@f2sys.net) Received: from ppp-rich.ari.net (rich@ppp-rich.ari.net [198.69.193.148]) by web4-1.ability.net (8.9.1/8.9.1/Pub) with SMTP id UAA19973; Wed, 17 Mar 1999 20:55:29 -0500 (EST) Date: Wed, 17 Mar 1999 21:08:32 -0500 (EST) From: Rich Fox X-Sender: rich@ppp-rich.ari.net To: Ludwig Pummer Cc: Stan Brown , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: runlevels ? In-Reply-To: <4.1.19990317173322.00918930@mail-r> 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 Hi, Just a shot: If I remember correctly, Redhat has a multi-tier system that enables and disables programs depending on where you are in the boot process, (or where you want to be), hence runlevels. You can use this as a way to control everything that is going on with your box. It's one of the reasons, that when I tried FreeBSD for the first time, and it had a single 'runlevel' (or at least it booted into what I considered the final state of the operating system), I found it much easier to work with as a newbie. I consider it [various runlevels] kinda neat, but at the time when I was learning, it was an unnecessary level of complication, (no pun intended). I hope to be working with Redhat again soon, although, I am still quite loyal to, and will stick with for my primary systems, FreeBSD :) Rich. | rich fox | rich@f2sys.net | 1513 N. Rhodes St. #1 | Arlington, VA 22209 | t:703.528.9616 | f:703.329.2314 On Wed, 17 Mar 1999, Ludwig Pummer wrote: > At 04:36 PM 3/17/99 , Stan Brown wrote: > > How can I find out what runlevel my FreeBSD machine is in? > > I've never heard of runlevels... > Perhaps you mean securelevel? 'sysctl kern.securelevel' will tell you that. > > --Ludwig Pummer ( ludwigp@bigfoot.com ) ICQ UIN: 692441 > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message