Date: Tue, 14 Sep 1999 11:42:57 +0300 From: Ruslan Ermilov <ru@ucb.crimea.ua> To: Michael Kennett <mike@laurasia.com.au> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: No runlevels Message-ID: <19990914114257.A83801@relay.ucb.crimea.ua> In-Reply-To: <199909140834.QAA37133@laurasia.com.au>; from Michael Kennett on Tue, Sep 14, 1999 at 04:34:54PM %2B0800 References: <199909140834.QAA37133@laurasia.com.au>
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On Tue, Sep 14, 1999 at 04:34:54PM +0800, Michael Kennett wrote: > Hello All, > > 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? > > In general, I prefer the BSD approach into system initialization (the rc > scripts) than the SysV approach (a jungle of scripts). But on occasion I > can see the need for *different* initializations. The SysV runlevels makes > this easy, whereas for *BSD, I can only think of adding a 'runlevel=BLAH' > variable into /etc/rc.conf, and having explicit testing of this variable > thru' the rc scripts (which I think is horrible :-). > > I'm interested in knowing the different opinions people have on this. > > Regards, > > Mike. A limited support is provided by init(8) in -stable and -current. -- 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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