Date: Wed, 24 May 2000 16:17:12 +0100 (BST) From: Jan Grant <Jan.Grant@bristol.ac.uk> To: James Clifford <james.clifford@csom.net> Cc: Jan Grant <Jan.Grant@bristol.ac.uk>, "Alagiya, Sudarsanan" <Sudarsanan.Alagiya@anchorgaming.com>, "'questions@FreeBSD.org'" <questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: SRC Message-ID: <Pine.GHP.4.21.0005241612370.2554-100000@mail.ilrt.bris.ac.uk> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0005231432360.21835-100000@euclid.base2.org>
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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. The SRC stuff from AIX is a case in point; admittedly, however, there it's a case of IBM wrapping something vaguely unix-flavoured around their one true OS :-) 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. jan PS. Don't get me wrong; I'm not being intentionally belligerent or knocking fbsd for the sake of it. -- jan grant, ILRT, University of Bristol. http://www.ilrt.bris.ac.uk/ Tel +44(0)117 9287163 Fax +44 (0)117 9287112 RFC822 jan.grant@bris.ac.uk Unfortunately, I have a very good idea how fast my keys are moving. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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