Got it. Thanks. Kevin Musick [EMAIL PROTECTED]
-----Original Message----- From: Roland McGrath [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, June 20, 2000 3:58 PM To: Kevin Musick Cc: '[email protected]' Subject: Re: runsystem > What's the difference between runsystem and runsystem.gnu? Are both > necessary? /libexec/runsystem is what gets run by /hurd/init at boot time. It is the first thing run in a normal POSIX environment, and is never expected to exit. It can do whatever it likes. The hurd package has a /libexec/runsystem shell script that uses /libexec/rc and /libexec/runttys to approximate a BSD-style init. Marcus's sysvinit package has a /libexec/runsystem that uses /sbin/init to give an init just like Linux has (the same program, in fact). These two debian packages use the debian "update-alternatives" method of installing/choosing these, in which /libexec/runsystem.gnu and /libexec/runsystem.sysvinit(?) are the actual things installed and /libexec/runsystem is a symlink to one or the other that is maintained by dpkg magic.
