From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Sep 16 21:43:11 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 39CA916A4CE for ; Thu, 16 Sep 2004 21:43:11 +0000 (GMT) Received: from nic.ach.sch.gr (nic.sch.gr [194.63.238.4]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2D35A43D2D for ; Thu, 16 Sep 2004 21:43:07 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from keramida@ceid.upatras.gr) Received: (qmail 9430 invoked by uid 207); 16 Sep 2004 21:43:05 -0000 Received: from keramida@ceid.upatras.gr by nic by uid 201 with qmail-scanner-1.21 (sophie: 3.04/2.19/3.81. Clear:RC:1(81.186.70.81):. Processed in 0.696208 secs); 16 Sep 2004 21:43:05 -0000 Received: from dialup81.ach.sch.gr (HELO gothmog.gr) ([81.186.70.81]) (envelope-sender ) by nic.sch.gr (qmail-ldap-1.03) with DES-CBC3-SHA encrypted SMTP for ; 16 Sep 2004 21:43:00 -0000 Received: from gothmog.gr (gothmog [127.0.0.1]) by gothmog.gr (8.13.1/8.13.1) with ESMTP id i8GLeqpW024448; Fri, 17 Sep 2004 00:40:52 +0300 (EEST) (envelope-from keramida@ceid.upatras.gr) Received: (from giorgos@localhost) by gothmog.gr (8.13.1/8.13.1/Submit) id i8GLTkp1012638; Fri, 17 Sep 2004 00:29:46 +0300 (EEST) (envelope-from keramida@ceid.upatras.gr) Date: Fri, 17 Sep 2004 00:29:46 +0300 From: Giorgos Keramidas To: Sergey Zaharchenko , freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Message-ID: <20040916212946.GA4467@gothmog.gr> References: <414990F7.3000101@grokking.org> <20040916150113.GA585@orion.daedalusnetworks.priv> <20040916173113.GB1138@shark.localdomain> <585281C6-0807-11D9-9096-000A95775140@mactutor.biz> <20040916175303.GA19271@igloo.linux.gr> <20040916181346.GB301@shark.localdomain> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20040916181346.GB301@shark.localdomain> Subject: Re: what are the pros and cons of running in single user? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 16 Sep 2004 21:43:11 -0000 On 2004-09-16 22:13, Sergey Zaharchenko wrote: > On Thu, Sep 16, 2004 at 08:53:03PM +0300, Giorgos Keramidas wrote: > > Hmmm. Don't get me wrong, but you shouldn't "go that route". > > I thought `that route' == `customize system start up' according to the > scoping rules:) Actually (and perhaps this was a misunderstanding on my part) what I meant by "that route" was to boot single user and then bring up the system piece by piece, starting only the parts that are deemed absolutely necessary (for some definition of "ansolutely" and "necessary"). > > Other than purely educational and system recovery reasons there's no > > real gain in getting your system up in single user mode and manually > > doing what the startup scripts will do automagically for you when > > properly configured. > [...] > Still, stuff learnt for purely education reasons sometimes helps. Heh, yeah. I still remember fondly the day I rewrote all the rc scripts of my Slackware system from scratch to give them a colourful look and feel, much like the way Redhat would do things back then. I've grown out of my childish behavior of adding colours everywhere now, but the amount of learning I gained from this was immense ;-)