From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Sep 14 2: 6:36 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from relay.ucb.crimea.ua (relay.ucb.crimea.ua [212.110.138.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1DA65156E8 for ; Tue, 14 Sep 1999 02:05:30 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from ru@ucb.crimea.ua) Received: (from ru@localhost) by relay.ucb.crimea.ua (8.9.3/8.9.3/UCB) id LAA89846; Tue, 14 Sep 1999 11:59:33 +0300 (EEST) (envelope-from ru) Date: Tue, 14 Sep 1999 11:59:33 +0300 From: Ruslan Ermilov To: Sheldon Hearn Cc: Michael Kennett , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: No runlevels Message-ID: <19990914115933.C83801@relay.ucb.crimea.ua> Mail-Followup-To: Sheldon Hearn , Michael Kennett , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG References: <199909140834.QAA37133@laurasia.com.au> <27611.937298920@axl.noc.iafrica.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.95.3i In-Reply-To: <27611.937298920@axl.noc.iafrica.com>; from Sheldon Hearn on Tue, Sep 14, 1999 at 10:48:40AM +0200 X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 3.2-STABLE i386 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Tue, Sep 14, 1999 at 10:48:40AM +0200, Sheldon Hearn wrote: > > > 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. :-) > This is a complete misinformation :-( 1) It is documented in init(8) manpage 2) It is turned `on' by default 3) It is available in 3-STABLE -- Ruslan Ermilov Sysadmin and DBA of the ru@ucb.crimea.ua United Commercial Bank, ru@FreeBSD.org FreeBSD committer, +380.652.247.647 Simferopol, Ukraine http://www.FreeBSD.org The Power To Serve http://www.oracle.com Enabling The Information Age To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message