Subject: Re: Updating /etc...
To: Ted Lemon <mellon@fugue.com>
From: Brett Lymn <blymn@awadi.com.AU>
List: current-users
Date: 12/20/1995 13:47:54
According to Ted Lemon:
>
>However, /etc/init.d just makes things really easy for the machine in
>some ways, fails to solve the ordering problem, and makes things
>really unpleasant for humans.
>

Huh? What?  Ordering problems?  What sort of ordering problems?  I
thought that the scripts were processed in sort of numerical order
(actually it is alpha sort order of S*) from the /etc/rc*.d
directories where each rcn.d directory is processed when that number n
run level is being entered/exited - this should mean you can fix
any ordering.

The really nice thing about the /etc/init.d is that it allows kill
methods for processes so it means you can do cool things like shutdown
inn, your database server, whatever automatically.

-- 
Brett Lymn, Computer Systems Administrator, AWA Defence Industries
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