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Re: BSD Init scripts [Was]: Gentoo:

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Subject: Re: BSD Init scripts [Was]: Gentoo:
From: "Robert G. (Doc) Savage" <dsavage@peaknet.net>
Date: 23 Feb 2003 16:19:31 -0600
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Organization: Southern Illinois Linux Users Group
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On Sun, 2003-02-23 at 16:14, Jonathan Drews wrote:
> On Sunday 23 February 2003 04:00 PM, you wrote:
> 
> >   The second
> > problem (BSD init scripts) makes it nearly impossible to build proper
> > packages for things that need to start on boot.
> 
> Steven:
> 
>  Why are the BSD init scripts a problem? I ask because I am having 
> trouble building GNOME 2.2 on my FreeBSD 4.7. If you could elaborate on 
> the problems with the init scripts, I would appreciate it. 

Jonathan,

It's the Berkeley vs SysV thing. linux uses SysV start up scripts (the
rc.X stuff) and runlevels. Berkeley is more primitive and doesn't
support such flexibility.

--Doc

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