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From: chmr@edvz.tu-graz.ac.at (Christoph Robitschko)
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions
Subject: Re: Constant rebooting of hard drive (PLEASE HELP)
Date: 18 Mar 1993 16:09:55 +0100
Organization: Technical University of Graz, Austria
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In article <1993Mar17.181728.28455@coe.montana.edu> Nate Williams (nate@cs.montana.edu) wrote:
> To find out what init does, do a 'man init'.  For those of you don't
> have running systems, init is NOT required for you to run the patchkit.

man: no entry for init in the manual.
> 
> Fixing init allows things to work better when rebooting, shutting down,
> fscking the disks, etc.....
> 
I have a version of init written from scratch. It is running on my
systems very well, writes its messages via syslog, is written modularly
and even has a man page. A (I think) new feature is its configurability:
You can configure it at run time via a file (It's fully back-compatible
if this file doesn't exist). Things you can configure include
default startup state (singleuser/multiuser), which shell to start
in singleuser, some timeouts etc. 
And you can configure the default process limits for all processes
on the system, without recompiling the kernel !

I hope I find time next week to finish the last bits and polish it up.
> 
> Nate

							Christoph
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