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- Path: sparky!uunet!auspex-gw!guy
- From: guy@Auspex.COM (Guy Harris)
- Newsgroups: comp.unix.internals
- Subject: Re: looking for a way to tell a machines current state.
- Message-ID: <14272@auspex-gw.auspex.com>
- Date: 25 Aug 92 19:43:21 GMT
- References: <1992Aug12.192218.16955@sparky.imd.sterling.com> <1351@pacsoft.com>
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- Organization: Auspex Systems, Santa Clara
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- >If your particular box doesn't have the getut(3) suite, it's pretty
- >trivial to implement.
-
- Err, that assumes you have a system that *has* run levels. If you don't
- - e.g., if you have a system with a V7-ish or BSD-ish "init" - there
- *is* no current run level to check....
-