From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Oct 31 20:02:21 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 53DD316A4CE for ; Sun, 31 Oct 2004 20:02:21 +0000 (GMT) Received: from rproxy.gmail.com (rproxy.gmail.com [64.233.170.207]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E7DCD43D46 for ; Sun, 31 Oct 2004 20:02:20 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from david.jenkins@gmail.com) Received: by rproxy.gmail.com with SMTP id 74so77154rnk for ; Sun, 31 Oct 2004 12:02:17 -0800 (PST) DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:message-id:date:from:reply-to:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:references; b=pozcJgEQOWjFL6b8iWAebMLL6D+jp4q6gKqkr1XoNItaxWaXffylCbcEJf+JK09XLigaPg47v8V/vDX0+3mFT9HMZlFw7NcN6+9hzcU7TLWNBMoSMoB9u8mTuK9UTSnkNLySFVsS2RY3i/df21pENcqBVBaJDxnngB04nbeChw0= Received: by 10.38.72.26 with SMTP id u26mr321526rna; Sun, 31 Oct 2004 12:02:17 -0800 (PST) Received: by 10.38.208.66 with HTTP; Sun, 31 Oct 2004 12:02:17 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <9395922d04103112022908a0ec@mail.gmail.com> Date: Sun, 31 Oct 2004 20:02:17 +0000 From: David Jenkins To: Paul Hoffman In-Reply-To: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit References: cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Admin-visible differences between 4.10 and 5.3 X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list Reply-To: David Jenkins List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 31 Oct 2004 20:02:21 -0000 On Sun, 31 Oct 2004 10:49:07 -0700, Paul Hoffman wrote: > Greetings again. At one point, I think I heard that there was going > to be a big change in the bootup (rc.foo) stuff in FreeBSD 5, but I > don't see anything about that in the Early Adopter Guide. Assuming > that I'm quite comfortable with day-to-day system administration > under FreeBSD 4 but want to start using 5 on new systems when 5.3 > comes out, what do I need to know? Maybe this helps. http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/configtuning-rcng.html Cheers, David