"Hamish" == Hamish Moffatt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Sat, May 02, 1998 at 04:15:54AM -0400, Adam P. Harris wrote: > But hang on; Branden's whole point was that runlevels could solve > the xdm & xfs mess in the /etc/X11/config file; your runlevel > proposal doesn't address that at all. Is "it's traditional" a good > enough reason to do things?
It's a good reason but not a sufficient reason to do things. In cases were it makes sense. > Traditionally a Unix platform doesn't > come with the GNU system installed, but we ship it that way. And > more examples ... I'm not adverse to having xdm/xfs et al start in run level 4, that is fine. In that case, we're extending tradition a little. One point I wanted people to recognize is that if we diverge the meaning of run levels 2 and 3 from the solaris practice, which expresses a pretty standard practice AFAIK, we are going to be making headaches for new sysadmins and for software developers writing for Unix. .....A. P. [EMAIL PROTECTED]<URL:http://www.onShore.com/> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
