Re: benefits of invoke-rc.d
On Wed, 06 Apr 2005, Jon Dowland wrote:
> >None, UNLESS you are doing it from a script or doing something unusual. I
> >wrote invoke-rc.d to get the package maintainer scripts (the stuff
> >dpkg runs
> >when installing, updating or removing packages) to behave. Nothing else.
>
> Interesting - so abstracting the init process' mechanisms (and allowing
> things like file-rc to exist) was an unplanned side effect? :)
file-rc is sysv-like, and no, it was a design goal. And it existed well
before invoke-rc.d.
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