Marcus wrote: > The Debian setup is in the above package and will set the runsystem link to > make use of it. The Hurd script is the thing you get if you don't use Debian > (eventually...).
Roland wrote: > /libexec/runsystem is what gets run by /hurd/init at boot time. It is the > first thing run in a normal POSIX environment, and is never expected to > exit. It can do whatever it likes. The hurd package has a > /libexec/runsystem shell script that uses /libexec/rc and /libexec/runttys > to approximate a BSD-style init. Marcus's sysvinit package has a > /libexec/runsystem that uses /sbin/init to give an init just like Linux has > (the same program, in fact). Thanks for the clarification. Should I read into this that the Hurd designers envision an alternative startup sequence, departing from the rc#.d scripts and all of the symbolic links and creative filenaming to something a little more twentieth-century? Or, is /libexec/rc just a sample startup script to get someone running who doesn't have a complete distribution available? Kevin Musick [EMAIL PROTECTED]