From owner-freebsd-questions Wed May 24 8:34:43 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from dan.emsphone.com (dan.emsphone.com [199.67.51.101]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F08CA37BCE2 for ; Wed, 24 May 2000 08:34:40 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dan@dan.emsphone.com) Received: (from dan@localhost) by dan.emsphone.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) id KAA17204; Wed, 24 May 2000 10:34:10 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from dan) Date: Wed, 24 May 2000 10:34:10 -0500 From: Dan Nelson To: Jan Grant Cc: James Clifford , "Alagiya, Sudarsanan" , "'questions@FreeBSD.org'" Subject: Re: SRC Message-ID: <20000524103410.A15527@dan.emsphone.com> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2i In-Reply-To: ; from "Jan Grant" on Wed May 24 16:17:12 GMT 2000 X-OS: FreeBSD 5.0-CURRENT Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG In the last episode (May 24), Jan Grant said: > On Tue, 23 May 2000, James Clifford wrote: > > Forgive my ignorance, but what are the advantages of runlevels? I know > > that Linux has them, but I'd never noticed the lack of them in FreeBSD > > until you mentioned it. > > A high-level and granular control over the services you're running is > something you don't miss until you've been exposed to it; unfortunately, > after that you (at least, I) do tend to notice it's not there. > You might have a look at the page I was referred to recently when I > queried the lack of structured shutdown scripts to mirror the startup > ones; the feature list there reads pretty much like the service managers > from any unix you pay for. Note that these are two different things; runlevels, I think, have been agreed on as pretty much useless. A way to cleanly startup and shutdown the system (or parts of a system) with correct dependency handling is useful. I have never seen anyone on a SysV system actually use any runlevel except 3 (multiuser+network) and 5 (power off). What is done a lot, though, is running "/etc/init.d/arbitraryservice start|stop". -- Dan Nelson dnelson@emsphone.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message