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- From: michael@gandalf.moria (Michael Haardt)
- Subject: Re: [ANNOUNCE] poeigl-1.7 and admutil-1.4 available
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- Organization: An old and gray machine, somewhere in Moria.
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- Date: Sun, 15 Nov 92 00:02:08 +0100
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- In article <92315.094941NU013809@NDSUVM1.BITNET>, Greg Wettstein <NU013809@NDSUVM1.BITNET> writes:
- > If a move is made toward using a Sys-V compatible init as the default init
- > it may be important to provide a short set of documentation that explains
- > the ins and outs of a run-level init. With the fundamental important of
- > init there could very well be a flood of new-user problems when they
- > suddenly find out that this beast reacts radically different than what
- > they have been used to.
-
- There is a detailed manual page for init and the SYS V distribution
- comes with an example initttab. I use the SYS V init since I first saw
- it and I am very satisfied. admutils only contain an old version, which
- has a subtile bug which sometimes leads to a deadlock, but that is
- corrected in the current version.
-
- > they have been used to. There have been plenty of horror stories about
- > whacked inits and inittab's already. Luckily everyone seems to have a
- > sufficiently healthy respect for problems to keep a bootable-rootable
- > floppy around.
-
- Or old Minix floppies ... :)
-
- Michael
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