On 13 Feb 2001, at 4:12, Jack Coates wrote:
> Interesting... I like the SysV system for /etc/init.d/service
> start|stop|restart|status though. My only experience with the BSD
> style is Slackware 2.0 though, so my apologies and please let me
> know if a similar capability is there.
The standard BSD manner (as far as I am aware) is to have several
(about three or four) rc.* scripts in /etc - including /etc/rc,
/etc/rc.net, and others. I'll have to set up a BSD box to get the
full effect, and to remember. I've got PicoBSD - the only floppy
distro that ran in 4Megs - and OpenBSD floating around here somewhere.
> > * One of the newer versions will have an "official" document branding
> > it with the MIT/X License; perhaps you might want this?
> Unless you're willing to retroactively extend such licensing. Are
> you saying that the first Oxygen releases were not open licensed,
> or just that they weren't documented as such?
The latter. I'm not sure how much the licensing can "stick" unless
you document it; putting the license information on disk will be one
of my upcoming ToDos. Also, by rights, this only covers my original
code; most of the rest is probably GNU CopyLefted.
> For the Oxygen core, yes, I think a lot of people would like
> something like that. The Ladybug philosophy so far seems to be "if
> you have to ask yourself whether you need this file, you probably
> don't." :-)
Ahhh.... Well, then such a sysvinit.lrp would probably include:
/etc/rc
/etc/rcS
/etc/rc*.d
/usr/sbin/update-rc.d
/etc/init.d
...and a few more. Of course, packages will put their stuff into
/etc/init.d, but that could be run via (in a new /etc/rc or
/etc/rc.local):
for script in /etc/init.d/* ; do
$script
done
The concept of "run levels" is part of the System V philosophy as
well. Most systems seem to be going towards the System V philosophy;
the only one I've so far that isn't is the BSD UNIX crowd. Linux,
which is just like BSD in almost all respects, uses System V init....
By the way: interesting name. This past summer, here in the MidWest
USA, we had an onslaught of Asian ladybugs - hundreds of them in the
air in little clouds - and they bite - is your system going to be in
existance in the hundreds in little clouds and bite? :-)
--
David Douthitt
UNIX Systems Administrator
HP-UX, Linux, Unixware
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