Re: init.d, rc0.d, ... rc6.d

1998-01-13 Thread Sen Nagata
at some point around 12 Jan 1998 07:57:06 -0600 [EMAIL PROTECTED] mentioned: Sen Nagata writes: what kind of advantages does this kind of approach have compared to having a single file for each run level (or even one file for all runlevels) describing which scripts to run (as well as the

Re: init.d, rc0.d, ... rc6.d

1998-01-13 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Sen Nagata [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: is there already some administrative command one can use to easily enable/disable a service? i know it is possible to write scripts to do this for various services...but perhaps there is already some existing method? update-rc.d

init.d, rc0.d, ... rc6.d

1998-01-12 Thread Sen Nagata
hello- i've been wondering what the advantages and disadvantages are w.r.t. organizing the run-level changing/initialization scripts in the current manner. right now there are a number of scripts stored in init.d which are referenced by symbolic links from each of the rc*.d directories,

Re: init.d, rc0.d, ... rc6.d

1998-01-12 Thread Joey Hess
Sen Nagata wrote: what kind of advantages does this kind of approach have compared to having a single file for each run level (or even one file for all runlevels) describing which scripts to run (as well as the order to run them in)? There's not much difference, really, though the current

Re: init.d, rc0.d, ... rc6.d

1998-01-12 Thread john
Sen Nagata writes: what kind of advantages does this kind of approach have compared to having a single file for each run level (or even one file for all runlevels) describing which scripts to run (as well as the order to run them in)? The present system is safer and easier to automate. If

Re: init.d, rc0.d, ... rc6.d

1998-01-12 Thread Joel Klecker
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Regarding Re: init.d, rc0.d, ... rc6.d of 9:04 PM -0800 1/11/98, Joey Hess wrote: Sen Nagata wrote: what kind of advantages does this kind of approach have compared to having a single file for each run level (or even one file for all runlevels) describing