Subject: Re: PROPOSAL: /etc/rc, /etc/init.d/*, ...
To: matthew green <mrg@eterna.com.au>
From: Charles M. Hannum <root@ihack.net>
List: tech-userlevel
Date: 12/01/1999 12:41:16
matthew green <mrg@eterna.com.au> writes:

>    
>    This reads to me like a requirement on the design, not a specification
>    of how this system implements the requirement.  i'm looking for the
>    latter...
> 
> it implements it using exactly the same methods that /etc/rc does,
> right now (ie, 'checkyesno').  this work is 100% fully backwards
> compatible with the current rc.conf -- anything else would be
> completely unacceptable.

So how does this jive with supporting SysV usage?  I must be missing
something.