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Langasek: Upstart in Debian

Langasek: Upstart in Debian

Posted Nov 27, 2012 4:27 UTC (Tue) by s0f4r (guest, #52284)
In reply to: Langasek: Upstart in Debian by Cyberax
Parent article: Langasek: Upstart in Debian

The article doesn't claim otherwise. It does point out that upstart's sequence still executes an rcS script, but I suppose that's something that could be fixed.


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Langasek: Upstart in Debian

Posted Dec 3, 2012 16:11 UTC (Mon) by JanC_ (guest, #34940) [Link]

The rcS script is part of the sysvinit compatibility, so you probably can't really remove it without removing sysvinit compatibility (at least, sysvinit as it is implemented in Debian).

The rcS job runs '/sbin/sulogin' to get you an emergency shell (and also contains an embeded script needed for sysvinit compatibility when you leave single user mode).

Now, all that is really only because of the support for runlevels and other sysvinit features desired by a distro like Ubuntu & Debian, of course. None of that is mandatory; so you could create a much simpler upstart setup if you don't need all that (e.g. for an embeded or other dedicated system like webOS).

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