Re: obsolete wiki (no /etc/inittab)

[Jonathan de Boyne Pollard <J.deBoynePollard-newsgroups@NTLWorld.COM>]

Jonathan de Boyne Pollard:

> Furthermore: In this *particular* regard, the developer-provided doco 
> actually *is* clear. The upstart manual page for inittab has been 
> warning that the file is obsolete for over ten years, and that manual 
> page is copied all over the WWW making it fairly easy to come across. 
> (Examples: https://linux.die.net/man/5/inittab 
> https://askubuntu.com/questions/34308/ 
> https://serverfault.com/questions/147430/ 
> http://manpages.ubuntu.com/manpages/precise/man5/inittab.5.html)
>
> The systemd people have not explicitly documented inittab, as the 
> upstart people did, although they have explicitly documented run 
> levels as "obsolete" in the systemd manual page for runlevel. This, 
> too, has been copied around the WWW, albeit somewhat less. (Examples: 
> https://manpages.debian.org/stretch/systemd-sysv/runlevel.8.en.html 
> http://man7.org/linux/man-pages/man8/runlevel.8.html 
> https://www.mankier.com/8/runlevel)

Gene Heskett:

> Its becoming obsolete is NOT mentioned in my wheezy approved and 
> supplied man page for it, I just read it this instant. So if you call 
> it widely publicized it fails that definition AFAIAC.

Debian 7 has those very manual pages:


* https://manpages.debian.org/wheezy/upstart/inittab.5.en.html


* https://manpages.debian.org/wheezy/systemd-sysv/runlevel.8.en.html