On Thu, Jul 13, 2006 at 01:48:37PM -0400, Brian Henning wrote: > Hiya gang. > > For the longest time, I thought "SysV"-style init specifically meant the > sort of init that looked like this (like on RH-based distros): > > Starting some_odd_service [ OK ] > Starting doomed_to_fail_server [FAILED] > > ..and that Debian's init was "something else" (I didn't know a name): > > Starting mail agent: exim4 > Starting something else: somethingelsed > > But just now, I read something that called Debian's initscripts "...a > clean implementation of SysV boot scripts..." so now I'm not so sure.
Unfortunately, I won't help much, but, I'm afraid to say, that they are BOTH SysV boot systems. The "[ OK ]" is just eye-candy. SysV init describes the internal workings of the boot system, not how it appears. B-)
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