On Mon, 2008-12-08 at 22:51 +1100, Amos Shapira wrote: > 2008/12/8 William L. Maltby <CentOS4Bill at triad.rr.com>: > > Often, in a desktop environment, just a telnet 3, telnet 5 command > > You probably mean "telinit 3" and "telinit 5". Yep. My fingers (or brain) slurred that one! :-( > > But we are talking to a veteran of FreeBSD so he probably knows such > stuff already, shouldn't he? You'd be surprised. A lot just do init, which is also correct. I don't know why there was ever a distinction though. AFAICR, telinit has always been a link (hard or soft) to init. I've never looked into the code to see if argv[0] causes any change in code execution. > > Cheers, > > --Amos > <snip sig stuff> -- Bill