Date: Tue, 14 Sep 1999 11:59:33 +0300 From: Ruslan Ermilov <ru@ucb.crimea.ua> To: Sheldon Hearn <sheldonh@uunet.co.za> Cc: Michael Kennett <mike@laurasia.com.au>, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: No runlevels Message-ID: <19990914115933.C83801@relay.ucb.crimea.ua> In-Reply-To: <27611.937298920@axl.noc.iafrica.com>; from Sheldon Hearn on Tue, Sep 14, 1999 at 10:48:40AM %2B0200 References: <199909140834.QAA37133@laurasia.com.au> <27611.937298920@axl.noc.iafrica.com>
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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
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