Re: Init not behaving the way man says it does?
In article <[🔎] 20010617005418.A15943@ummagumma>,
Tom Gilbert <tom@linuxbrit.co.uk> wrote:
>in february of 2000 (when the manpage for init was last tweaked,
>from what i can tell) init may have operated they way it's
>describe there. but the way it works on debian potato is that it
>calls a script (/etc/init.d/rc) that calls scripts
>(/etc/rc*.d/[KS]*) with certain arguments. they're spozed to be
>the ones to do the job -- and this is a nice, new, modular
>layout.
No, the init manpage doesn't describe the Debian, Redhat or Suse
init system at all. It describes what /sbin/init does - that's
all. You have to combine that with
/usr/share/doc/sysvinit/README.runlevels.gz, which does describe
how the Debian /etc/rc?.d/ stuff works.
>you've discovered the biggest achilles' heel of the *nix world:
>"the documentation was probably right at one point, but..."
>to determine that "point", check the "last-modified" date and
>keep exploring if you need to...
No, you're reading things in the init manual page that aren't there.
Mike.
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