[CALUG] Difference between telinit and init

[Chris Edillon]

On Fri, 2006-08-25 at 22:32 -0400, James Ewing Cottrell 3rd wrote:

> Keep in mind that "at" has been historicly broken and that nobody really 
> ever used it. It might work in Linux because when somebody rewrote it, 
> they may have actually fixed it.
> 
  how was it historically broken?  i've been using it for over
twelve years on various flavors of unix with no problems, and it
has existed for longer than that.