| christophe barbé on Fri, 14 Jun 2002 13:37:26 -0400 |
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On Fri, Jun 14, 2002 at 11:04:58AM -0400, epike@isinet.com wrote: > > > 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/ > > Offtopic, whatever happened to /etc/inetd.conf which redhat > replaced with the /etc/xinetd.d/ directory, what does the other > distros use? Which one is more correct? xinetd is a supposedely improved inetd. The first visible change is the directory instead of a single file. This is IMHO a very good thing which allow package to add their own config without complicated (and possibly buggy) parsing and editing of the file. And you can still edit a given part if you want, so you loose nothing. But the real benefit is a more fine grained control of which service can run. Debian support both but install inetd by default. NOTE : The idea to split a big config file in small pieces is heavily used in debian and this simplify a lot of things. By example the /etc/modules.conf file is never edited directly. Change are done in the modutils directory which contains files for each functionnality and the big file is regenerated by update-modules. When a package (let's said a kernel module for your webcam) want to add a module in the big file, it simply copy a file in the directory and call update-modules. Of course when this is done at the software level (like in the xinetd case) you don't need to call a update-* script. Christophe > > e pike > > ______________________________________________________________________ > Philadelphia Linux Users Group - http://www.phillylinux.org > Announcements-http://lists.phillylinux.org/mail/listinfo/plug-announce > General Discussion - http://lists.phillylinux.org/mail/listinfo/plug > -- Christophe Barbé <christophe.barbe@ufies.org> GnuPG FingerPrint: E0F6 FADF 2A5C F072 6AF8 F67A 8F45 2F1E D72C B41E There's no sense in being precise when you don't even know what you're talking about. -- John von Neumann Attachment:
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