On Mon, Jan 13, 2003 at 11:38:36AM -0500, Thomas H. George wrote: > I'm not sure about the names. The one computer which was using this > system wrote 'I see you are using System-V' when I ran the linux-wlan-ng > configuration and I thought it was editing the runlevel.conf file. ok, a quick rundown: sysv is the (debian default) system that uses /etc/init.d /etc/rc2.d (et c) and starts and stops scripts with scripts like /etc/rc2.d/S99fooservice the file-rc (or bsd-ish) init system has a single /etc/init.d directory, and a single flat file that says which services to start. the former is arguably a little more flexible than the latter, but at the expense of being more complicated. sean
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