Re: Anyone working on the rc.d installer problem?

[Rahul Dave <rahul@reno.cis.upenn.edu>]

> In short: I agree with you, we should standardize, but I think we
> *also* should be able to specify additional constraints.
> 
> I suggest we write up a standard, and then let the LSB people "bless"
> it.
> 
> 	-hpa
> 
http://www.debian.org/doc/debian-policy/ch3.html#s-sysvinit

geves debians scoop on how a installer should add install files,
and what the mechanism is on their sysV.

Slackware uses the following type of config:
lrwxrwxrwx   1 rahul    rahul           4 Sep 25 00:43 rc.0 -> rc.6*
-rwxr-xr-x   1 rahul    rahul         396 Oct  2  1995 rc.4*
-rwxr-xr-x   1 rahul    rahul        2257 Aug 13  1996 rc.6*
-rwxr-xr-x   1 rahul    rahul        1235 May 27  1997 rc.K*
-rwxr-xr-x   1 rahul    rahul        2886 Aug 15  1995 rc.M*
-rwxr-xr-x   1 rahul    rahul        3897 Jun 22  1996 rc.S*
-rwxr-xr-x   1 rahul    rahul        1115 Oct  2  1995 rc.cdrom*
-rwxr-xr-x   1 rahul    rahul         113 Oct  2  1995 rc.local.new*
-rwxr-xr-x   1 rahul    rahul        8121 Apr 30  1995 rc.serial*

in the rc.d directory.


Here's a portion of rc.M multiuser config for example:

....
# Update all the shared library links automatically
/sbin/ldconfig

# Initialize PCMCIA devices:
if [ -x /etc/rc.d/rc.pcmcia ] ; then
  . /etc/rc.d/rc.pcmcia start
  fi

  # Start the sendmail daemon:
  if [ -x /usr/sbin/sendmail ]; then
    echo "Starting sendmail daemon (/usr/sbin/sendmail -bd -q 15m)..."
      /usr/sbin/sendmail -bd -q 15m
      fi

      # Load a custom screen font if the user has an rc.font script.
      if [ -r /etc/rc.d/rc.font ]; then
        . /etc/rc.d/rc.font
	fi

	# iBCS Emulation for Linux
	# The Intel Binary Compatibility Specif
	..........................


This should give a notion of the targets we need to handle.
Rahul