Re: Anyone working on the rc.d installer problem?
Speaking from the Stampede group. We currently have BSD style startup
scripts, with SysV compatibility. Although all the SysV startup scripts
are in /etc/rc.d/init.d, with the S##.foo in /etc/rc.d/rc.#
On Thu, 5 Nov 1998, Rahul Dave wrote:
> > 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
>
>
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