Interesting article on boot ordering

Bill Nottingham notting at redhat.com
Tue Sep 23 22:12:35 UTC 2003


Enrico Scholz (enrico.scholz at informatik.tu-chemnitz.de) said: 
> > systems, and expecting them to make sense of them. ... For something
> > like an init system, I'd think the required featureset is small enough
> > that you should be able to only need one system.
> 
> Ok; you have the choice between:
> 
> minit ... fast and reliable
> sysv  ... widely used for years

minit is not particularly fast in and of itself. It's no faster
than SysV init; it's just a matter of what you configure it to
run.

> >> There is LSB support in rhl-initscripts which can be dropped? ;)
> >
> > Yes, been there since 7.3...
> 
> Mmmh, must be well hidden. E.g. the LSB return codes, 'lsb_start_daemon'
> instead of 'daemon', or the dependencies. ;)

It's in redhat-lsb.

Bill





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