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From: Julian Elischer <julian@whistle.com>
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Peter Wemm wrote:
> 
> "Gary Palmer" wrote:

> or replaced.  (I'd certainly prefer a sysv-style inittab, but I can
> certainly understand that others will not, so I won't push it.)
> 
> There seems to be rumblings about changing the utmp file format to allow
> for longer user names, longer hostnames, IP addresses, etc.  If it's going
> to change, this is probably something else that should be fixed at the
> same time.

personally I want some run-levels as well.
certainly I want to have  the following modes of operation:

1/ single user
2/ normal
3/ functional test (automatic diagnostics etc)

an inittab file would allow me to not do the edit (for mode 3)
that I'm about to spend the rest of the day doing.

:)

julian