Posted Jun 28, 2004 19:27 UTC (Mon) by allesfresser (subscriber, #216)
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I can't comment on the difference with the SysV style, as I've not had enough experience with it, but I *can* say that the Slackware scripts are (to me) a lot more readable than say, RedHat scripts. The reason I say that is because there are no utility functions to trace through, no extra stuff at all. Each script is straightforward shell script. Anyway, I like it. :-)
"BSD-style" init scripts,
Posted Jul 1, 2004 4:46 UTC (Thu) by set (guest, #4788)
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Well, it does appear to use a sysV init daemon, but then so does gentoo, without being traditional sysV init systems. eg. it doesnt have a series of directories, like /etc/rc0.d /etc/rc3.d filled with symlinks to the scripts in /etc/init.d with names like K05foo and S90bar, indicating the order of a set of scripts to be run when leaving and entering a new runlevel. Rather, it uses a bunch of /etc/*.conf files to determine the behaviour of the helper scripts, and a large script for each runlevel that calls the helper subsystem scripts. Which is similar to the old BSD system, but their scripts and conf files were all just in /etc/, and there is not really an idea of general runlevels, but more like security levels.