From owner-freebsd-chat Fri Sep 22 09:29:35 1995 Return-Path: owner-chat Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) id JAA09363 for chat-outgoing; Fri, 22 Sep 1995 09:29:35 -0700 Received: from fslg8.fsl.noaa.gov (fslg8.fsl.noaa.gov [137.75.131.171]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) with SMTP id JAA09357 for ; Fri, 22 Sep 1995 09:29:32 -0700 Received: by fslg8.fsl.noaa.gov (5.57/Ultrix3.0-C) id AA26592; Fri, 22 Sep 95 16:29:12 GMT Received: by emu.fsl.noaa.gov (1.38.193.4/SMI-4.1 (1.38.193.4)) id AA14641; Fri, 22 Sep 1995 10:29:10 -0600 Date: Fri, 22 Sep 1995 10:29:10 -0600 From: kelly@fsl.noaa.gov (Sean Kelly) Message-Id: <9509221629.AA14641@emu.fsl.noaa.gov> To: pechter@shell.monmouth.com Cc: peter@taronga.com, freebsd-chat@freefall.freebsd.org In-Reply-To: <199509221532.LAA10231@shell.monmouth.com> (message from Bill/Carolyn Pechter on Fri, 22 Sep 1995 11:32:48 -0400 (EDT)) Subject: Re: ports startup scripts Sender: owner-chat@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk >>>>> "Bill" == Carolyn Pechter writes: Bill> The 1 level on the machines I've seen runs the things like Bill> sync, cron, and a getty on the console... It's real nice for Bill> testing things like startup without letting users on via the Bill> net or over serial port gettys. And then there's /etc/nologin---but I'm not sure if that's a better solution. Bill> I've done this with drops to run state 1 at times under Bill> Linux at home to automate a lot of backups. (It's real hard Bill> to do Single user cron'd backups 8-)...) Okay, I'm getting more and more convinced. But then again, I've been doing automated multiuser backups at 3.00am (with some die-hard users still on) and haven't lost any files. -- Sean Kelly NOAA Forecast Systems Laboratory, Boulder Colorado USA TASK: Shoot yourself in the foot. In Ada: After correctly packing your foot, you attempt to concurrently load the gun, pull the trigger, scream, and shoot yourself in the foot. When you try, however, you discover you can't because your foot is of the wrong type.