From owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Feb 2 19:27:14 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BFC3216A4CE for ; Mon, 2 Feb 2004 19:27:14 -0800 (PST) Received: from mail.gmx.net (pop.gmx.de [213.165.64.20]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 4A40643D2D for ; Mon, 2 Feb 2004 19:27:13 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from vex555@gmx.net) Received: (qmail 14342 invoked by uid 65534); 3 Feb 2004 03:27:11 -0000 Received: from h24-71-31-245.wk.shawcable.net (EHLO localhost) (24.71.31.245) by mail.gmx.net (mp013) with SMTP; 03 Feb 2004 04:27:11 +0100 X-Authenticated: #18804643 Date: Mon, 2 Feb 2004 19:23:54 -0800 From: Gary To: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Message-Id: <20040202192354.0be2729d.vex555@gmx.net> In-Reply-To: <200402030201.34371.mark@fantoma.net> References: <200402030201.34371.mark@fantoma.net> X-Mailer: Sylpheed version 0.9.0claws (GTK+ 1.2.10; i686-pc-linux-gnu) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: FreeBSD and Solaris.. the differences? X-BeenThere: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Gathering place for new users List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 03 Feb 2004 03:27:14 -0000 On Tue, 3 Feb 2004 02:01:34 +1100 Mark Gladman wrote: > Hey Peeps, > > I've got to start doing some Solaris stuff as a part of my classwork > in a few weeks time, and was wondering if anyone knew of any good > web-pages which show the differences (user-side) between Solaris and > FreeBSD? I'm no expert but I think one of the main differences is the start-up. Solaris (system 5 Unix) like Linux uses runlevels with a different directory for each runlevel containing links to the scripts to run on startup. BSD puts its startup commands in /etc/rc.boot or /etc/rc.local. Gary