From owner-freebsd-current Fri Aug 16 20:11:17 1996 Return-Path: owner-current Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id UAA10615 for current-outgoing; Fri, 16 Aug 1996 20:11:17 -0700 (PDT) Received: from gwydion.hns.st-louis.mo.us (dyn-pc-35.hunter.com [199.217.148.35]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id UAA10597 for ; Fri, 16 Aug 1996 20:11:11 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from kenth@localhost) by gwydion.hns.st-louis.mo.us (8.7.5/8.7.3) id UAA26803; Fri, 16 Aug 1996 20:32:09 -0500 (CDT) From: Kent Hamilton Message-Id: <199608170132.UAA26803@gwydion.hns.st-louis.mo.us> Subject: Re: Opinions? NT VS UNIX, NT SUCKS SOMETIMES To: nate@mt.sri.com (Nate Williams) Date: Fri, 16 Aug 1996 20:32:07 -0500 (CDT) Cc: current@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: <199608162136.PAA08388@rocky.mt.sri.com> from "Nate Williams" at Aug 16, 96 03:36:42 pm X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24 ME8a] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-current@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > [much deleted] > > 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. Uhhh, I use it a lot. Run '2' is multi-user no networking, Run '3' is multi-user with networking, Run 'a' start's up some added extras on one machine I admin. It's quite useful for bringing the box online to do some work on it (like re-configuring or upgrading sendmail, xinetd, etc) without having to worry about what daemons didn't die, etc, etc. I don't drop from 3 to 2 often but will boot 2 instead. This use to be the default setup on at least one SysV based o/s and I liked it so much I adopted it on most of my machines. -- Kent Hamilton Play: KentH@HNS.St-Louis.MO.US NIC Handle: KH91 URL: http://www.icon-stl.net/~khamilto/ Blessed Be.... Work: KHamilton@Hunter.COM