According to Curt Sampson:
>
>I coded up a bit of proof-of-concept stuff for the new NetBSD
>startup dependency system that Perry and Matt were doing some work
>on. This made the whole concept of `runlevels' obselete by instead
>allowing you to turn on and off named daemons or named groups of
>daemons. So you wouldn't for example, have to have your radius
>server running just to run xdm on that machine as well.
>

This sounds interesting but does it address the down side as well?
Meaning, can you tell a group of daemons to please go away.  This is
what I use run levels a lot for at work - I know that if I tell the
machine to `init 0' then the database servers will have been shutdown
correctly by the database kill script.

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Brett Lymn, Computer Systems Administrator, British Aerospace Australia
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