[fedora-java] where are the fedora-specific tomcat5 docs? other docs?

Nicolas Mailhot nicolas.mailhot at laposte.net
Mon Aug 1 10:49:43 UTC 2005


On Lun 1 août 2005 12:32, Andrew Haley wrote:
> Nicolas Mailhot writes:
>  >
>  > On Lun 1 août 2005 06:22, John M. Gabriele wrote:
>  >
>  > > Hmm... Why didn't the rpm packager create at least a simple
>  > > readme saying how to stop and start this software?
>  >
>  > Because this is Red Hat administration 101 and all the system daemons
> are
>  > managed this way (mtas, httpd servers, etc). In fact it's not even Red
> Hat
>  > specific because this kind of initialisation script is standardised at
> the
>  > LSB level.
>
> This way to start daemons comes from UNIX System V, AFAIK.  That makes
> in January 1983, a mere 22 years ago.  Unless it was actually part of
> SVR4, in which case it was 1988, a mere 17 years ago.

Right. I didn't want to enter in all those persky details to make my point ;)

-- 
Nicolas Mailhot




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