Paul Rogers wrote:
Yes, init is old. For single user mode, we are using run level 1
although the word 'using' is a bit of a misnomer because I've never
actually found a reason to use it.
I, on the other hand, always use it the very first time I bring a system
up! It gives me a chance to check it out, make some last minute mods
that may be needed for that particular box or how I intend using it,
before runlevel 3 wants the world at its feet.
We are using the files in /etc/rc.d/rcS.d to initialize the system
regardless of run level. Note that there are no K entries there at
all and we never update it in BLFS. 'init S' just does the same as
'init 1'
Yes, I understand that it works. My question though was _why_ LFS chose
rcS.d, inviting that confusion, when rcsysinit.d always worked just
fine. Is there some future requirement for rcS.d, or something?
It's been a while, but I think it was how other distros at the time were
doing it. I went back and checked in February 2004 we were doing
l1:S1:wait:/etc/rc.d/init.d/rc 1
then. It may have been that way right from the start of LFS.
Of course, it you don't like the way we are doing the init scripts, you
are free to change them.
-- Bruce
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