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...
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