Re: Debian, too easy?
On Thu, Oct 24, 2002 at 10:15:57PM -0700, nate wrote:
> tool) that the system accepted the change(it has some sort of DB
> backend..)
That's not entirely isolated to AIX. Some other systems keep some things
(like user accounts) database files somewhere, and just update the files
in /etc for backwards compatibility.
> AIX is screwed up as it is though, I mean I was shocked to learn to
> load SSH on startup I had to put it in /etc/inittab! wtf! (maybe that
> was AIX 4.2..I keep gettin the 2 versions confused)
Suddenly, something I saw with IBM DB2 7.x on Linux makes a lot more
sense. Even though all of their officially-supported distributions use
SysV inits, the way they tell you to have DB2 start at boot is by adding
a runonce line to inittab to run /etc/rc.DB2. Which means that DB2 would
get shut down when init sent it TERM and KILL signals. Databases usually
don't like that....
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Michael Heironimus
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