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Re: Debian Boot Process



On 14 Mar 2003 10:53:05 +0100
Ernst-Magne Vindal <ernst@vindal.com> wrote:

> On Fri, 2003-03-14 at 09:59, Paul Johnson wrote:
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> > A. Because it's backwards.
> > http://www.netmeister.org/news/learn2quote.html
> > 
> > On Thu, Mar 13, 2003 at 11:27:55AM -0800, Kris wrote:
> > > You state it calls init.  Where is init  /usr/bin /usr/sbin.  is init a
> > > program.  Thanks
> > 
> > /sbin/init and yes, it's a program.  It always appears as PID 1 in ps,
> > and you cannot (normally) kill it (if you do, you're special and about
> > to run into some funky problems if it doesn't outright lock up).
> > 
> > Q.  Why is top-posting bad?
> > 
> > - -- 
> >  .''`.     Baloo Ursidae <baloo@ursine.dyndns.org>
> > : :'  :    proud Debian admin and user
> > `. `'`
> >   `-  Debian - when you have better things to do than fix a system
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> 
> top posting is bad because it's hard to follow the (white rabbit) tread.
> 
> now you can see the first msg above and it's that you wrote, and the
> firs answar below, the next below this one. 
> 
> it's much easier to start at the top and read all the msg in this tread,
> insted of jumping up and down.
> 
> 
> -- 
> 
> /ernst
> 
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Quoting entire messages complete with signature lines and unsubscribe directions is also less-than-considerate. :)

Kevin



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