In message <23577.956023630@eterna.com.au> matthew green writes:
: it is not the default because the "standard" is that scripts get called
: with "start" at boot time.  i *thought* luke was going to add a backdoor
: variable, set only at/for boot time, that would make this happen anyway..

One "good" thing to come of this is that the MIPS ports have improved
their ps/fork/exec times to make the machine boot acceptably fast
again.  The boot times on mips went from 10s to >> 2 minutes for some
people :-(

Warner