Date: Tue, 14 Sep 1999 10:48:40 +0200 From: Sheldon Hearn <sheldonh@uunet.co.za> To: Michael Kennett <mike@laurasia.com.au> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: No runlevels Message-ID: <27611.937298920@axl.noc.iafrica.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 14 Sep 1999 16:34:54 %2B0800." <199909140834.QAA37133@laurasia.com.au>
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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. :-) Ciao, Sheldon. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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