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From: Sheldon Hearn <sheldonh@uunet.co.za>
To: Michael Kennett <mike@laurasia.com.au>
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Subject: Re: No runlevels 
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On Tue, 14 Sep 1999 16:34:54 +0800, Michael Kennett wrote:

> Yesterday, I had reason to take my system down into single-user mode. I
> suddenly realised that there was no 'telinit' program to change runlevels
> -- indeed, unlike Linux, *BSD doesn't support runlevels. Is there is a
> good reason for not supporting runlevels?

Hysterical raisins. Work is being done to provide run-level support
in init(8), but it's still in infancy. So far, it's an undocumented
built-time option which is turned off by default, available in
4.0-CURRENT.

Don't upgrade to CURRENT just for this. Stick around. :-)

Ciao,
Sheldon.


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