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Old 02-27-2003
Question Runlevel in Freebsd?
Hello,

Is there any runlevels in freebsd?
Like in linux or solaris?

Thanks
-I
# 2  
Old 02-27-2003
in netbsd yes there is, but the boot process is handled differently than in linux. linux uses the system V boot procedure (yes?). netbsd has single user mode and then different levels, 0 is insecure mode , 1 is secure mode , 2 is highly secure mode and so on. comparing the man file for init on SuSE linux and netbsd, they are pretty different, again, the boot process is handled differently. if you have access to a *bsd machine you should defenitly take a look at the man pages for init, it is very interesting (to me at least) to read both how a system V and a bsd init work. im sure however that someone else on the forum can give a much better explanation of the different boot concepts better than i can, i actually am looking forward to reading one of their posts on this subject if they get to it (hopefully!).
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Old 03-01-2003
Have a look at the 7th post at this site. It may be of help.
Quote:
There are no "runlevels" in FreeBSD. The OS either runs in multi-user mode or single-user mode. That's it. System V Unix uses runlevels, of which there are 10. How's that for nice and "simple".

To drop to single-user mode in FreeBSD, use shutdown now and to get back to multi-user use exit or fastboot depending on if you want to reboot or not.

As to your problem with vsftpd, can't help you anymore. I've never used it. Sorry.
included the quote since it was small --oombera
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