----- Original Message ----- From: "Phil Barnett" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, February 19, 2003 1:31 AM Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo init system : was [Re: [gentoo-user] service parameter passing?]
> Anything that makes it easier to transition from the other Linux flavors where > the init files are laid out very differently would make those testing the > waters feel much more welcome. If that's not anyone's goal here, then I'm > tilting at windmills. I'm not sure what you mean here. Yes, there are some differences with the layout of the runlevel directories but Gentoo uses the same basic structure as RH and Mandrake do. The init scripts are stored in the same place (/etc/init.d) and operate in the same way from the command-line (/etc/init.d servicename start|stop|restart). Yes there are differences, the scripts are written in a different (and IMO, better) syntax which allows for service dependencies (instead of the system that RH and Mandrake use of Sxx and Kxx to indicate if a service should be started or killed and the order). The other difference is in the structure of the runlevel directories but that's not really a big deal because this was always just a place where symlinks to the scripts in /etc/init.d were stored. Now if you're coming from a BSD style init structure, then you will find the init structure to be extremely different but I thought that RH and Mandrake both used System V style by default (certainly that's always been the way I've had boxes with either distro setup and I don't remember ever explicitly setting it to System V style). I don't see what the big deal of the service script is other than just as a shortcut from typing /etc/init.d/. However, that's not a standard part of System V style init, that's something that RH added. A number of list members have already posted sample scripts (some more complicated than others) that would work and you've also shown that service from RH is just a shell script as well (which would probably work fine on a gentoo box with little or no modification). --- Andrew "frugal" Dacey [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.tildefrugal.net/ -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
