On Tue, 12 Oct 2010 16:29:42 +0200, Sven Barth wrote about Re: [fpc-pascal] Detecting what is the linux distro:
> Am 12.10.2010 14:01, schrieb David W Noon: [snip] > > This is a consequence of using an init process based on the System V > > model. > > ArchLinux does not use a System V init system, but a simpler BSD one. > And thus it does not use /etc/init.d, but only /etc/rc.d. So does the BSD init use run levels? One of the major distinctions between /etc/init.d/ and /etc/rc.d is that the latter is segregated by run levels, so that each daemon can have a different environment for different run levels. All of the actual init scripts in my /etc/rc.d/ ultimately resolve to symlinks into /etc/init.d/, which is typical for any System V style system. Indeed, this makes installing a script directly into /etc/rc.d/ a strict no-no under Gentoo, as all insertions into a run level have to be performed by the sysadmin by hand; other Linuxes are more permissive, though. Consequently, I would never want any program to install anything into that directory, except by the rc-update program run by hand. -- Regards, Dave [RLU #314465] *-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-* david.w.n...@ntlworld.com (David W Noon) *-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*
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