Don't leave linux's
chkconfig --list
These makes managing all those symlinks easy. I wish SYS V had something
like this.
Earle Nietzel
> >
> > I can very well understand them. First of all some Linux
> distributors have
> > been creative in the past and have moved rc[0-6].d/ and init.d/ to
> > interesting places like /sbin/ or /etc/rc.d/, probably just to be
> > ``different'' from a real System V. Just one of the small
> but annoying
> > differences between various UNIX flavours.
>
> Agreed. All the Linux distributors should get together to choose one
> directory for those rc scripts. I really don't care too much it is
> exactly the same as Solaris. But I prefer something under /etc. RedHat
> uses /etc/rc.d and Debian uses /etc. /etc/rc.d makes things easier to
> control.
>
> BTW, it would nice to standardize on package names and the numbers
> accociated with each packages too.
>
> >
> > I actually don't like the pile of symlinks that a SysV Init
> usually has
> > quite messy; a text file for the configuration or maybe one
> per package to
> > make things easier for package managers would have easier
> to manipulate.
> >
>
> Symlinks may be a little messy. But it does provide support
> for run level
> very nicely. A single text file or one per package is very
> bad. Since there
> may be dependencies among packages, we have to start them in certain
> order and new packages may be installed at any time. Symlinks
> works quite
> well here. It is very convenient for packages with rc
> scripts. I really
> appreciate that feature while working on knfsd.
>
>
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