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Subject: Re: Opinions? NT VS UNIX, NT SUCKS SOMETIMES
To: nate@mt.sri.com (Nate Williams)
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In-Reply-To: <199608162136.PAA08388@rocky.mt.sri.com> from Nate Williams at "Aug 16, 96 03:36:42 pm"
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> > 
> > In BSD, I can add service A by appending to /etc/rc.local during
> > install.
> 
> That's one way of doing it, but not the only way.
...

> 
> The SysV of 'multiple run-levels' is something I've yet to see used.
> Even the most hard-core SysV gurus use the two available in BSD,
> single-user and multi-user.

Well, I use the ``network up, but single user'' mode a lot when doing
maintenance out at Intel on the HP-UX cluster.  Infact we added a specific
run level that is exactly what we wanted, since the default one was a
bit off mark :-)

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