Christine Tran wrote: > Before SMF, I don't recall booting into 3 a lot either. A system on the > fritz will throw me into single-user, ask for the maintenance password. > I poke around, fix stuff, exit.
3 was the default, so that's probably where you booted to most of the time... just never explicitly. > I think you are asking a philosophical question, what are some finite > states a box should be in and what can I expect in each state? Yes, exactly. (And, looking at it a different way, as a software designer what states should I put my service in so as to match the user's expectations.) > In my > perfect world, it would be "no service", "all services", "maintenance > mode" which is defined by the vendor and by me. But we have this > compatibility issue like Liane said. So that seems to say: State Run my service none No all Yes maint Probably not -other- Don't care, it's legacy, don't worry about it Hmm. I guess I can accept "don't care" as the answer for m-u-s.
