To those who responded to my questions regarding compilation of start-stop-daemon -- thanks! I'm going to try to write my own version of this utility as an exercise. Are there any features start-stop-daemon is missing?
Also, Hurd doesn't seem to have an /etc/inittab. Am I missing something? I noticed the directory structure of the rc files is somewhat different than the Linux distributions I'm familiar with. Typically, there is an rc.d directory, which contains the init.d directory and the rc#.d directories. In Hurd (I assume it's a Debian convention), the init.d and rc#.d directories are in /etc and there is also an rc.boot and an rcS.d. I'm just trying to understand the basic dir structure and what file the system looks at to determine where the startup/shutdown scripts will be located. What is the status of X-Windows on Hurd? It seems that there was a separate branch of GNU Mach that contained support for Linux char devices. Is this required? I was under the impression that it would be someday superceded by OSKit mach. Kevin Musick [EMAIL PROTECTED]
