[H-GEN] linux is still too hard

[Robert Brockway]

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On Wed, 17 Jul 2003, Hilton Travis wrote:

> > But the sim link had to be in level 7 for E Smith to connect - so [3]
> > cd /etc/rc7.d
> > ln -s /etc/init.d/bpalogin S50bpalogin
>
> Runlevel 7?  Another reason I'm tending to build my own servers based on
> Gentoo - E-Smith is getting WAY too far off the road for me - too many
> strange - proprietary, dare I say it - ways of going about normal tasks.

Runlevels 7-9 are a "feature" of Linux's init.  I would like to tell you
they are undocumented (so any distro using them could appear super cool)
but they are infact mentioned in the man page.  There existance is a
mystery however, much like the 3-toed sloth.

Rob

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