Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site umcp-cs.UUCP Path: utzoo!linus!gatech!seismo!umcp-cs!chris From: chris@umcp-cs.UUCP (Chris Torek) Newsgroups: net.unix Subject: Re: Q's on: System V /etc/init.... Message-ID: <2270@umcp-cs.UUCP> Date: Wed, 20-Nov-85 03:17:49 EST Article-I.D.: umcp-cs.2270 Posted: Wed Nov 20 03:17:49 1985 Date-Received: Thu, 21-Nov-85 21:59:31 EST References: <5749@fortune.UUCP> <2968@sun.uucp> <331@ncr-sd.UUCP> <2621@ut-ngp.UUCP> Organization: U of Maryland, Computer Science Dept., College Park, MD Lines: 40 In article <2621@ut-ngp.UUCP> clyde@ut-ngp.UUCP (Head UNIX Hacquer) writes: > Hmm. Almost hate to say this, but the 'init levels & automatic reboot' > discussion falls into my category of "Yet another reason to pitch System V > into the trash". :-) > > (Of course, who knows what violence has been done to init/getty in 4.3) Very little, actually. Instead, they have been cleaned up quite a bit. I have heard that the new /etc/ttys format was done at MIT; it is, by the way, also in Ultrix 1.1, judging from the manuals---which were incorrectly typeset: all the tabs except the first were squashed out. Extracted from our own /etc/ttys: # # name getty type status comments # console "/etc/getty 4" dw on secure # console tty00 none sd off # to CVL tty01 none sd off # to CVL tty02 "/etc/getty sd" sd on # Gandalf [...etc...] ttyhe "/etc/getty N7" N7 on # Nau 4337 ttyhf "/etc/getty Dq" Dq on # 4364 DT80#18 ttyi0 "/etc/getty aaa" aaa on # 4364 ttyi1 "/etc/getty N7" N7 on # Reiter 2313 ttyi2 "/etc/getty N7" N7 on # Lan Do 4309 [...etc.] with careful `gettytab' setup, most every entry can simply read tty "/etc/getty " on This, and having everything in one file, greatly reduces organizational headaches. -- In-Real-Life: Chris Torek, Univ of MD Comp Sci Dept (+1 301 454 4251) UUCP: seismo!umcp-cs!chris CSNet: chris@umcp-cs ARPA: chris@mimsy.umd.edu