> It also lacks any standards on what functionality is provided at each
> run-level.  What you really want is to introduce names for specific
> services and then have the subsystems specify what services the
> require and automatically start them in the right order.  E.g. if your
> database needs network services to be present it should say so.  If
> your turn-key system needs the database to be up and running it should
> say so.  You then run lorder  on the initialization scripts (so to
> speak) and execute them in the computed order.

I see that my other comments were anticipated....  I should 
read the mail first, then comment.

--Terry Moore
tmm@mcci.com