Admin-visible differences between 4.10 and 5.3

Paul Hoffman phoffman at proper.com
Sun Oct 31 12:12:43 PST 2004


At 8:02 PM +0000 10/31/04, David Jenkins wrote:
>On Sun, 31 Oct 2004 10:49:07 -0700, Paul Hoffman <phoffman at proper.com> wrote:
>>  Greetings again. At one point, I think I heard that there was going
>>  to be a big change in the bootup (rc.foo) stuff in FreeBSD 5, but I
>>  don't see anything about that in the Early Adopter Guide. Assuming
>>  that I'm quite comfortable with day-to-day system administration
>>  under FreeBSD 4 but want to start using 5 on new systems when 5.3
>>  comes out, what do I need to know?
>
>Maybe this helps.
>
>http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/configtuning-rcng.html

Bingo, that is exactly what I was looking for. Thanks!

Are there any other admin-visible changes in 5.3 I should be looking for?

--Paul Hoffman


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