Re: [SLUG] Re: Re: Distro Layout / Config Standards (was Re: Debian)

[Herbert Xu <herbert@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Peter Rundle <peter.rundle@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> of course thats exactly the same thing as changing to a suitably
>> configured runlevel..  are you ever likely to change enough services
>> to warrant a whole runlevel tho?

> When I was a lad at Uni, they had the Unix server there configured 
> to change to different run levels (via crontab) at different times
> of the day, thus software/services for say 3rd year would come on-line
> at 4pm and all the first year stuff would be shutdown.

OK, let me continue Gus's line of argument, if the number of services
involved is large, why not have a simple script that stops/starts them all
and put that into your crontab?
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