Subject: Re: Feature idea...
To: None <current-users@netbsd.org>
From: Aaron J. Grier <agrier@poofy.goof.com>
List: current-users
Date: 02/03/1999 10:35:05
On Wed, Feb 03, 1999 at 02:09:05PM +1100, Simon J. Gerraty wrote:
> >Proposal:  'etcswitch'.  There would be directories /etc/switch/foo, and
> 
> Sounds good, but perhaps overkill?

If you're going to do it, minus well do it the BSD way with make.  :)

cd /etc/rc
make ppp-on
make ppp-off
make X-on
make X-off
make single-user
make multi-user
etc...

and you could do parallel makes on multi-cpu machines.  :)  The whole
concept of runlevels is silly, methinks...

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