From owner-freebsd-hackers Thu Jan 16 11:27:02 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.4/8.8.4) id LAA08198 for hackers-outgoing; Thu, 16 Jan 1997 11:27:02 -0800 (PST) Received: from sax.sax.de (sax.sax.de [193.175.26.33]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.4/8.8.4) with SMTP id LAA08190 for ; Thu, 16 Jan 1997 11:26:58 -0800 (PST) Received: (from uucp@localhost) by sax.sax.de (8.6.12/8.6.12-s1) with UUCP id UAA03175; Thu, 16 Jan 1997 20:26:48 +0100 Received: (from j@localhost) by uriah.heep.sax.de (8.8.4/8.6.9) id UAA15598; Thu, 16 Jan 1997 20:01:09 +0100 (MET) Message-ID: Date: Thu, 16 Jan 1997 20:01:08 +0100 From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) To: FreeBSD-hackers@freebsd.org (FreeBSD-hackers) Cc: pechter@shell.monmouth.com (Bill/Carolyn Pechter) Subject: Re: SysV init References: <199701151836.NAA09575@shell.monmouth.com> X-Mailer: Mutt 0.55-PL10 Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-PGP-Fingerprint: DC 47 E6 E4 FF A6 E9 8F 93 21 E0 7D F9 12 D6 4E Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) Sender: owner-hackers@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk (No need to send this to -chat, it's a technical discussion.) As Bill/Carolyn Pechter wrote: > Any chance for utmp space to record the run level in future versions > -- or should I just record it in /var/run/runlevels in it's own file > for compatibility. I think the utmp model is already beyond the summit of its life. See the recent discussion that followed the utmp.h changes. It's probably best to leave utmp as it is, until somebody created the framework to update/replace it, and go with /var/run/runlevels by now. -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)