>I'd like to be able to create arbitrarily-named things similar-to-runlevels,
>which could inherit from each other.  Thus, I could say
>
>	runlevel standard {
>		start net;
>		start foo;
>		start bar;
>	}
>
>	runlevel xdm {
>		inherit standard;
>		start xdm;
>	}
>
>	runlevel netless {
>		inherit standard;
>		stop net;
>	}
>
>and things like that.  

easy!

>I also want this to magically run efficiently on a VAX 11/730.

that's fine too, if you have the version of the processor that has the
bourne shell instruction.  :)

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