Date: Tue, 22 Oct 1996 18:11:40 -0700 From: Julian Elischer <julian@whistle.com> To: Peter Wemm <peter@spinner.DIALix.COM> Cc: Gary Palmer <gpalmer@freebsd.org>, "Marc G. Fournier" <scrappy@freefall.freebsd.org>, hsu@clinet.fi, freebsd-bugs@freefall.freebsd.org Subject: Re: bin/958 Message-ID: <326D70CC.2781E494@whistle.com> References: <199610230016.IAA17486@spinner.DIALix.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
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