According to Christian Pernegger: > On Mon, Sep 11, 2000 at 11:19:23PM +0000, Miquel van Smoorenburg wrote: > > > There is a README in /etc/init.d for a reason, you know .. > > I fully understand that you as the Grand Master of the Debian init system > might be annoyed by such a question, but why reply, then?
I am not the Grand Master of the Debian init system. I didn't invent it. It existed before I became a Debian maintainer. But I did my best to improve and document it. > That said, I usually appreciate RTFM pointers - in this case however I have > read the FM in question. (policy manual, sec 3.3) Yes but the README _also_ says: Some more detailed info can also be found in /usr/share/doc/sysvinit .. and in that directory we find: % cd /usr/share/doc/sysvinit % ls README.runlevels.gz changelog.gz copyright examples/ README.runlevels.gz will answer all your questions Mike. -- Deadlock, n.: Deceased rastaman.