Am Sonntag 08 Oktober 2006 18:40 schrieb Gustavo Noronha Silva: > Em Sun, 08 Oct 2006 18:25:57 +0200 > > Michael Biebl <biebl@teco.edu> escreveu: > > > "sysvinit only" -> "sysvinit + upstart" (using > > > alternatives/diversions) > > > > No offense, but I wouldn't trust the alternatives system for something > > sensible as /sbin/init. Please also remember that it's not the > > /sbin/init binary alone, we'd have to provide alternatives for halt, > > shutdown, runlevel, reboot, poweroff and telinit. They would need to > > be switched in one step, you can't mix e.g. init from upstart with > > shutdown from sysvinit. This approach is a no-go imho. > > The alternatives system is quite mature; it suffered from leaving > dangling alternatives, but that was ages ago... > > The various commands you said could be provided as slaves to > the /sbin/init alternative, which will make them be switched > 'atomically'. But you need the shutdown command for the running init, not for the chosen-for-next-boot one. HS
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