In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> you wrote: >On Fri, 15 Aug 1997, Dima wrote: >
>> Also, runlevels _are flexible. Nobody can force me to start networking >> daemons at RL 2 -- I can bloody well start them from ip-up when I ring my >> ISP, at whatever runlevel I happen to be then. (In practice I don't care: >> when I don't need networking daemons, they waste about $0.5 worth of my >> swap partition. Big deal). >> >This is a different thing all together. What you are doing is saying that >runlevels are not flexible enough to handle your networking daemon >requirements, so you'r gonna do it manualy. You are just saying that they >are flexible because you don't have to use them. What I meant was, let's say on my box I have runlevels 0 - 2 for powerdown (you're quite right about that not belonging in rl 5, btw), halt and reboot, rl 3 = single-user, 4 = multi-user and 5 = multi-user with xdm running. I'm not concerned with, e.g. networking daemons. A person configuring web/mail/newsserver would be concerned with the order in which daemons are started, and s/he would edit rls 4 - 6 accordingly. S/he doesn't care about xdm. On, say, a router programs running at rls 4 - 6 will be different again. What remains is the order in which various programs are started/killed; I think that can easily fit into a stack-like thingy (or a state machine, for that matter). We don't know which exactly "various programs" they'll happen to be on a given machine; we can, however, provide a reasonable, easy to modify default. Anyway, I'd prefer any (open would be nice) standard, as long as it's supported by at least 3 - 4 different unices. As long as it's not a single program group called "startup"... :) -- Dimitri ------- By US Code Title 47, Sec.227(a)(2)(B), a computer/modem/printer meet the definition of a telephone fax machine. By Sec.227(b)(1)(C), it is unlawful to send any unsolicited advertisement to such equipment. By Sec.227(b)(3)(C), a violation of the aforementioned Section is punishable by action to recover actual monetary loss, or $500, whichever is greater, for each violation. (Solicited advertisements <huh?> and other such can be sent to emaziuk at curtin dot edu dot au) -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
