One thing that is REALLY COOL about gentoo, is its inovative dependancy based init system, where you do not have to find a place (ie a numeric value) which is appropriate for K and S scripts. As much as I liked sysV style initscripts, when I first encountered then, the gentoo way, is really supperior. Yiu just declare your dependant services, and gentoo will call the start script in the right place automatically after you have run "rc-update add INITSCRIPT RUNLEVEL" to add the script to the appropriate run level (usually just default).
You can look at any of the scripts in /etc/init.d to get the idea. It took me less than an hour to convert the oracle dbora init script from my red hat partition and convert it to gentoo. This is one part of the gentoo system it is WORTH getting to know. And it is not hard. Lincoln On Thu, 2003-01-30 at 22:39, Matt Neimeyer wrote: > Hey All, > > The box I'm running Gentoo on came with Redhat 7 (something) on it. The > reason this matters is that it has an LCD panel on the front that displayed > lots of useful information (like uptime, memory usage, etc) and some > buttons that let you, among other things, shut down the computer. I've got > qmail running on the box and it's going to be moving to a colo facility. > Now the Redhat install had an init script and a daemon (binary only) and > some other tools. On an identical box that I installed Redhat 8 on (for > someone else) I was able to transplant those binaries and scripts and > everything worked the way it should. > > So the question is... what's the likelihood that I can run those binaries > on Gentoo without corrupting anything? And how would I rewrite the init > script so that I can run it on Gentoo? > > Thanks! > > Matt > > P.S. I've already tried to identify the hardware with no luck but if > someone knows what the LCD unit is that Gallentry installed on their GW500 > boxes and a better / more direct way to control it... > > > -- > [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list -- Lincoln A. Baxter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
