I'll chime in with Slackware. I've found it to be relatively simple to follow the startup on it. Its become my fav.....
stayler On Mon, 14 Jul 2003 06:24:20 -0700 "Net Llama!" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> professed: > On 07/14/03 05:21, Ben Duncan wrote: > > > <LOL> .. > > > > Taught a 5 day class last week at a New Horizons learning Center, on > > Linux. Basically threw the book they supplied out, (HEY, When vi is > > at the end and they > > cover changing default values, you know you have to do something!!). > > > > One of the things I covered, was the init procedures and how to the > > System boots > > up and shuts down. > > > > Now, I was using Mandrake 9.1 (And not wanting to start a religion > > war here - but > > suffice it to, I will never use it again!!) and one of the students > > caught my fax-paus > > on run levels. Further investigations showed, that ALL the scripts > > for all things > > needed to be started are in a ALL of the runlevel rc<dot>d files. > > > > Now, came across several interesting articles on inittab (One of > > them was yours > > Mr. Bandel - and the picture at the bottom shows I do have a twin > > somewhere in this > > world) and all of them show the following standard : > > > > l0:0:wait:/etc/init.d/rc 0 > > l1:1:wait:/etc/init.d/rc 1 > > l2:2:wait:/etc/init.d/rc 2 > > l3:3:wait:/etc/init.d/rc 3 > > l5:5:wait:/etc/init.d/rc 5 > > l6:6:wait:/etc/init.d/rc 6 > > > > Anyway, I was perplexed, as I was USED to having something (From the > > olden days) where the scripts specific for both the S and the K > > functions for that particular runlevel were contained in the > > runlevel specific directory, > > and were passed thru on the way UP or DOWN to a specific run level. > > The RC scripts were generally NOT repeated in any of the other > > runlevels. > > > > NOW have I gone nuts, was not paying attention in MY class, or > > simply am stupider than a box on this ? > > So are you saying that there is no /etc/init.d/ with the init scripts, > and that in /etc/rc.d/rc3 the scripts just are sitting in there, > without symlinks? If so, then yea, that is all messed up. > > > > > And for the NEXT question, are there ANY recommendations on what a > > GOOD Distro for using to teach the NEXT class with ? > > I'm rather fond of Redhat. I'm sure that others will rave about SuSE, > or a Debian variant, or even Gentoo. > -- > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ > L. Friedman [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Linux Step-by-step & TyGeMo: http://netllama.ipfox.com > > 6:20am up 22:29, 1 user, load average: 0.10, 0.15, 0.09 > > _______________________________________________ > Linux-users mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Unsubscribe/Suspend/Etc -> > http://www.linux-sxs.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-users > _______________________________________________ Linux-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe/Suspend/Etc -> http://www.linux-sxs.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-users
