Zachary Kotlarek wrote: > And as far as ugliness goes, be sure to compare apples to apples; > you're used to sysvinit, so it's easy to ignore its flaws. But > sysvinit uses a whole set of folders and symlinks in /etc that > contain a lot of highly-redunant files to communicate a tiny amount > of information that's typically used only once or twice per boot.
Actually, we tried to clean that up a bit. The files are in /etc/rc.d/init.d and almost everything else is just symlinks. The subdirectories for /etc/sysconfig were removed and most, but not all, of the files there can be included in rc.site. The other place that scripts are located is /lib/lsb, but that's there due to a standard. The structure is not particularly hard to learn. On Fedora, there is: ./system: basic.target.wants dbus-org.freedesktop.Avahi.service dbus-org.freedesktop.NetworkManager.service default.target default.target.wants getty.target.wants graphical.target.wants multi-user.target.wants network.target.wants printer.target.wants sockets.target.wants sysinit.target.wants ./system/basic.target.wants: ip6tables.service iptables.service ./system/default.target.wants: systemd-readahead-collect.service systemd-readahead-replay.service ./system/getty.target.wants: getty@tty1.service ./system/graphical.target.wants: system-setup-keyboard.service ./system/multi-user.target.wants: abrt-ccpp.service abrtd.service abrt-oops.service ... Say what? The service files look like Windows ini files. Changing to that seems to me changing for change sake, but not really adding value. In the iptables.service file are: ExecStart=/usr/libexec/iptables.init start ExecStop=/usr/libexec/iptables.init stop So we are adding another directory to /usr. /lib/boot/ strikes me as a better place. But why do we now have two entries. The iptables.service file is now 17 lines when the sysvinit was a simple symlink (or 6 in a parallel structure). -- Bruce -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-dev FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/faq/ Unsubscribe: See the above information page
