[ILUG] Init vs telinit

[John P. Looney]

On Wed, May 17, 2000 at 12:39:24AM +0100, Lars Hecking mentioned:
> > IRIX has it. (and presumably therefore on all other SysVR4 Unices
> > too).
>  The BSDs and related (DU, SunOS4) OTOH don't seem to.

 Most likely because they don't have the concept of "Runlevels" ?

 The reason it's there is that originally, init was not to be run by users
- just the kernel on boot. So, it was the only way of changing them.
SVr2/3 or something made init a little more personable, but they kept
telinit.

Kate

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