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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!feed1.news.erols.com!dciteleport.com!www.nntp.primenet.com!nntp.primenet.com!dispatch.news.demon.net!demon!cucumber.demon.co.uk!usenet From: andrew@cucumber.demon.co.uk (Andrew Gabriel) Newsgroups: comp.unix.solaris,comp.unix.bsd.misc,comp.unix.internals,comp.unix.osf.osf1 Subject: Re: SysV init [Was: Solaris 2.6] Date: 11 Dec 1996 23:26:31 GMT Organization: home Lines: 20 Distribution: inet Message-ID: <58nfv7$jt@cucumber.demon.co.uk> References: <32986299.AC7@mail.esrin.esa.it> <57djlg$bks@agate.berkeley.edu> <57dkbq$bsr@panix2.panix.com> <casper.329abb76@mail.fwi.uva.nl> <58m3bb$hju@innocence.interface-business.de> NNTP-Posting-Host: cucumber X-NNTP-Posting-Host: cucumber.demon.co.uk X-Newsreader: knews 0.9.6 Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.solaris:92267 comp.unix.bsd.misc:1781 comp.unix.internals:11577 comp.unix.osf.osf1:17001 In article <58m3bb$hju@innocence.interface-business.de>, j@ida.interface-business.de (J Wunsch) writes: > >The SysV init has good and bad sides. While i think the idea is not >too bad, i have yet to see a single SysV that does all state >transitions right, e.g. where it doesn't tell you ``Starting foobar >service...'' when you tell it to go down from run-level 3 to 2, or >``Stopping mumblefritz'' when you upgrade from S to 1. Interactive Unix is the best I've seen - repeatedly switching between states works perfectly. Solaris is completely broken here though - it's not possible to take system down to single user unless you fix the scripts yourself. (Of course, you can boot up into single user.) -- Andrew Gabriel Home: Andrew@cucumber.demon.co.uk Consultant Software Engineer Work: Andrew.Gabriel@net-tel.co.uk