Danny wrote:
> Assuming I want to install sys progs without the RPMS I was wonder why the
> developers of RH have made modifying etc/rc.d so complex.
>
> Whereas in BSD you have to only create a file called sysprogs.sh to start the
> program up.
Between the BSD and SysV init style init scripts, I'll take Sys V,
thanks :)
If you need to start a program at boot time, you can either create a
script in /etc/rc.d/init.d and a symlink in /etc/rc.d/rc<runlevel>.d, or
put it in /etc/rc.d/rc.local. Worst case scenario is one step longer
than the BSD style. The benefit comes with the ability to start and
stop a single service without having to remember complex commands. For
instance, I run qmail. Every time I add a domain, I want to restart
qmail. The following commands are in its init script:
[ /var/qmail/users/assign -nt /var/qmail/users/cdb ] \
&& /usr/bin/qmail/qmail-newu
PATH="/var/qmail/bin:$PATH"; export PATH
qmail-start "`cat /etc/qmail/dot-qmail`"
/usr/local/bin/accustamp \
| /usr/local/bin/setuser qmaill \
/usr/local/bin/cyclog -n500 /var/log/qmail &
Now, there's nothing that would stop me from using such a script under
BSD, but I think that Sys V's init is a better design. It's very clean,
and IMHO, easier to learn than the BSD style scripts.
All the same, use what suits you.
MSG
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