[PLUG] Resolution too high.... darn blinking login

[A Braunsdorf]

In message <20001017103247.A7104@holomorphy.com>, William Lee Irwin III writes:
> 
> There is an actual "standard" for this, made perhaps by the LSB...
> I cite one of the recent/continual flamewars on debian-devel. Like
> I said, though, there is little consensus. I tend to side with
> Solaris as well, as it seems the sanest of all specifications
> I know of and have actually read.

When Sun went Sys V, they took it pretty seriously.  Of course,
being Sun, they couldn't leave well enough alone and kicked in some
of their own "improvements".  Unless I see something that smells
like a Sunism, I figure it's usually pretty straight. :-)

> AIX is wack

I'd say "wacky" is more accurate.  AIX is really good, it's just
different.  At least it works as documented and is super duper
stable.

HP-UX, on the other hand, is wack.  IRIX is really wack. :-(

> there are runlevels 0 - 9 (I forgot to mention runlevel
> 0 traditionally being halt), and there are all sorts of weird things
> going on beside that. There is a /etc/rc.d, but it seems to have few
> important inhabitants other than /etc/rc.d/rc

Right.  That's one of the things they do more BSD style.  AIX
desperately tries to follow everyone's guidelines.  Sometimes it
works (ps takes both Sys V (with a '-') and BSD (without) options,
for example), sometimes it's a train wreck.

You can set up Sys V style rc stuff, though, and they even document
it as a way to do things, but most people (and smit) don't.  It's
just scripts after all, not much stopping you from doing it
differently on most any system.

ab