> RH's also got a cool '[ OK ]' or '[ FAILED ]'. Though a lot of them would term this as "cool" factor, I simply disregard this as the "bloat" factor. A quick reading on the Redhat's rc.sysinit script reveals that it takes a couple of 'cat /etc/issue', grep, sed and cut commands to simply display a "Welcome to Redhat 9.0" kind of message! It takes several chunks of commands like this to display that [ OK ] or [ FAILED ] message (which in my opinion is not too informative for a sysadmin). Sure, you can turn them off by a magic option [BOOTUP="verbose" in /etc/sysconfig/init], but this simply adds in more logic to the startup scripts.
The Redhat's (and derivative's) rc scripts are bloated way too much, IMO. This constitutes to _one_ of the reasons why Redhat boots slowly when compared to Slackware/Debian with the same set of startup services enabled. Run a wc -l on rc.sysinit, and rc script on Redhat/Fedora, then try wc -l on rcS and rc script on Debian. The numbers on Debian are what I term as the'cool' factor ;-) > > For slack I'd heard it's based on the init structure of the BSD's. > You're right. It maintains it's so-called 'toughness'. Apparently, I always have found Slackware's startup scripts - the easiest to maintain. All it takes to add a service is to open the rc.M file and the command to start the service. It sounds more optimal to me. No need to remember special commands (chkconfig, service, ntsysv, linuxconf) and so on. And yes, no messing around with symbolic links, those magic S?? and K?? numbers too. Oh well, I know a lot of sysadmins would find comfort in SysV style init scripts, and thus Redhat's way of doing things. Cheers, Chandrashekar Babu. ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by: thawte's Crypto Challenge Vl Crack the code and win a Sony DCRHC40 MiniDV Digital Handycam Camcorder. More prizes in the weekly Lunch Hour Challenge. Sign up NOW http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;10740251;10262165;m _______________________________________________ linux-india-help mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/linux-india-help
