From owner-freebsd-hackers Thu Sep 21 12:18:48 1995 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) id MAA24725 for hackers-outgoing; Thu, 21 Sep 1995 12:18:48 -0700 Received: from ibp.ibp.fr (ibp.ibp.fr [132.227.60.30]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) with ESMTP id MAA24695 ; Thu, 21 Sep 1995 12:18:26 -0700 Received: from blaise.ibp.fr (blaise.ibp.fr [132.227.60.1]) by ibp.ibp.fr (8.6.12/jtpda-5.0) with ESMTP id VAA23358 ; Thu, 21 Sep 1995 21:18:10 +0200 Received: from (uucp@localhost) by blaise.ibp.fr (8.6.12/jtpda-5.0) with UUCP id VAA14338 ; Thu, 21 Sep 1995 21:18:10 +0200 Received: (from roberto@localhost) by keltia.Freenix.FR (8.7/keltia-uucp-2.5.1) id UAA25099; Thu, 21 Sep 1995 20:35:05 +0200 (MET DST) From: Ollivier Robert Message-Id: <199509211835.UAA25099@keltia.Freenix.FR> Subject: Re: ports startup scripts To: syssgm@devetir.qld.gov.au (Stephen McKay) Date: Thu, 21 Sep 1995 20:35:04 +0200 (MET DST) Cc: patl@asimov.volant.org, syssgm@devetir.qld.gov.au, ports@freebsd.org, hackers@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: <199509211256.WAA17842@orion.devetir.qld.gov.au> from "Stephen McKay" at Sep 21, 95 10:56:53 pm X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 2.2-CURRENT ctm#1085 X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24 ME7a+] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-hackers@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk It seems that Stephen McKay said: > What do we need run levels for? As far as I can tell, it's never done me > any good on the System V boxes I've administered. I want single-user mode > for serious system munging, and multi-user mode for everything else. The > rest is useless crap. If, say, cron is spinning madly out of control and you I agree with that. Having a scheme like /etc/rc.d can be useful but we can live without run-level. -- Ollivier ROBERT -=- The daemon is FREE! -=- roberto@keltia.frmug.fr.net FreeBSD keltia.Freenix.FR 2.2-CURRENT #1: Sun Sep 10 18:50:19 MET DST 1995