Re: Top 5 things that aren't in Debian but should be :-)
Warren Turkal wrote:
> Wouter Verhelst wrote:
>
>> Have you ever taken a look at Policy 9.4?
>>
>> If a script doesn't follow what's outlined there, that's a bug.
>
> While this is true. I will have to say that RH and Mandrake make it very
> obvious is something has FAILED or not. I think it would be great if
> Debian were to look into some more featureful solutions than SYSV type
> scripts though. The threaded type startup that was talked about earlier
> would be nice. There is an article on IBM developerworks that outlines a
> way to do it with make. I think this is somewhat hacky but illustrates to
> concept.
>
> http://www-106.ibm.com/developerworks/linux/library/l-boot.html?ca=dgr-lnxw09BootFaster
>
> There is also the problem of knowing whether a script executed
> successfully or not.
More interesting docs for booting *nix OSes.
http://www.atnf.csiro.au/people/rgooch/linux/boot-scripts/
http://www.daemonnews.org/200108/rcdsystem.html
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Warren Turkal
President, GOLUM, Inc.
http://www.golum.org
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