Re: sysvinit boot sequence and /etc/init.d/boot
Jean Pierre LeJacq <jplejacq@quoininc.com> writes:
> On 31 Aug 1997, Miquel van Smoorenburg wrote:
>
> > I want to split up the monolithic /etc/init.d/boot into multiple parts.
> > Right now, it contains too much crud. For example, it has support for
> > MD devices etc. which really should be part of the md-utils package.
> > So it would be desireable to just split it up and put it in /etc/init.d
> > as S00unconfigured, S01keymaps, S01swap, S02fsck, S02isapnp, S03modules,
> > etc, etc.
> > But since some applications already start using the numbers at S10, we
> > don't have enogh space. Especially if we want to keep the stuff sparse
> > so another script can be dropped in at the right level.
> > I see three solutions for this (apart from renumbering the existing usage
> > of the sequence numbers, which is too hard):
> > 1. Use S000 - S999 for bootup purposes
> > 2. Introduce a new prefix, B00 - B99 which gets executed at boot time
> > 3. Put the S00 - S99 for boot time into /etc/rc.boot instead of /etc/init.d
> > I like proposal #2 the most, especially since we can then get rid of
> > /etc/rc.boot altogether.
> Wouldn't proposal #2 stray from most standard commercial UNIX? If so
> I would prefer solution 1.
A concensus may be hard on this one, because I like #3. FWIW,
Slowaris uses "/etc/rcS.d", which is also acceptable to me. (It
could be argued that "rcS.d" is a little more consistent than
rc.boot).
Steve
dunham@cps.msu.edu
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