Re: BSD Init scripts [Was]: Gentoo:

[Steven Pritchard <steve@silug.org>]

On Sun, Feb 23, 2003 at 04:19:31PM -0600, Robert G. (Doc) Savage wrote:
> 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.

Right.  The important thing is that BSD init requires startup/shutdown
changes be made directly to init scripts, or to configuration files
that those scripts source.  The SysV init setup is much simpler, since
adding or removing a service is as simple as adding/removing a symlink
or renaming a file (depending on how exactly the OS/distribution
implements things).

That makes tools like chkconfig easy to implement, making the whole
thing incredibly easy to configure and pretty much foolproof.

Steve
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