Re: [PLUG] starting a program at boot

[christophe barbé <christophe.barbe.ml@online.fr>]

On Fri, Jun 14, 2002 at 10:58:47AM -0400, gabriel rosenkoetter wrote:
> On Fri, Jun 14, 2002 at 09:17:35AM -0400, christophe barbé wrote:
> > /etc/rc.d/init.d/ is outdated.
> > The FSH say /etc/init.d/ and IIRC on recent RH distrib /etc/rc.d/init.d/
> > is a symlink to /etc/init.d/.
> 
> Other way around on the RedHat end.
> 
> (RH's way of doing things is a ridiculously over-complicated version
> of the already ridiculously over-complicated SysV rc structure.)
> 
> > You can reasonably expect all distributions to use /etc/init.d/
> 
> You're dreaming. :^> But it'd be a step in the right direction.

Why ? RedHat, debian, Mandrake and the new LimitedLinux (oops sorry
UnitedLinux) support the FHS (at least at some extends).

> > And /etc/rc.d/rc.local is a RH kludge.
> 
> A RH kludge of BSD-style init into SysV init, and just another
> manifestation of Linux's BSD/SysV schizophrenia.
> 
> (/etc/rc.local is a quite normale, sane way of doing things in
> classic BSD rc.)

As you said, in classic BSD. 

Christophe

> 
> -- 
> gabriel rosenkoetter
> gr@eclipsed.net



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