On Sun, Jan 24, 1999 at 09:22:05AM -0800, H.J. Lu wrote:
> That is exactly what I was talking about Slackware. It is just one of
> those things which annoy me very much. Last time when I checked, it
> still used the BSD style init, which is very bad IMHO. Even FreeBSD is
> trying to move away from it and use something close to SVR4 init. There
> are some talks among FreeBSD to find something similar to our SysVinit
> since they don't want to do straight copy of Linux :-).
I can very well understand them. First of all some Linux distributors have
been creative in the past and have moved rc[0-6].d/ and init.d/ to
interesting places like /sbin/ or /etc/rc.d/, probably just to be
``different'' from a real System V. Just one of the small but annoying
differences between various UNIX flavours.
Not even the SysV community is proof against messing their init scripts;
Mips, Inc.'s old UNIX RISC/os or Solaris got it right. IRIX's startup
scripts are <censored>.
I actually don't like the pile of symlinks that a SysV Init usually has
quite messy; a text file for the configuration or maybe one per package to
make things easier for package managers would have easier to manipulate.
Ralf
