current-users: Re: /etc/inittab (was: /etc/default)

Subject: Re: /etc/inittab (was: /etc/default)
To: matthew green <mrg@mame.mu.Oz.Au>
From: Greg A. Woods <woods@kuma.web.net>
List: current-users
Date: 07/26/1995 17:15:44

[ On Wed, July 26, 1995 at 16:45:37 (+1000), matthew green wrote: ]
> Subject: Re: /etc/default 
> 
> as much as most people seem to hate it, AIX lets you have both
> sysv /etc/init.d and bsd /etc/rc* init scripts.  can we steal
> from here and make everyone happy?

The real key to the puzzle is an init(8) with run-levels and something
like /etc/inittab.  From there anything is possible.  That's what
AIX-and-pains (and old NCR SysV, etc) does...

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