Have I gone Nuts?

[Ben Duncan]

<LOL> ..

Taught a 5 day class last week at a New Horizons learning Center, on Linux.
Basically threw the book they supplied out, (HEY, When vi is at the end and they
cover changing default values, you know you have to do something!!).

One of the things I covered, was the init procedures and how to the System boots
up and shuts down.

Now, I was using Mandrake 9.1 (And not wanting to start a religion war here - but
suffice it to, I will never use it again!!) and one of the students caught my 
fax-paus
on run levels. Further investigations showed, that ALL the scripts for all things
needed to be started are in a ALL of the runlevel rc<dot>d files.

Now, came across several interesting articles on inittab (One of them was yours
Mr. Bandel - and the picture at the bottom shows I do have a twin somewhere in this
world) and all of them show the following standard :

l0:0:wait:/etc/init.d/rc 0
l1:1:wait:/etc/init.d/rc 1
l2:2:wait:/etc/init.d/rc 2
l3:3:wait:/etc/init.d/rc 3
l5:5:wait:/etc/init.d/rc 5
l6:6:wait:/etc/init.d/rc 6

Anyway, I was perplexed, as I was USED to having something (From the
olden days)  where the scripts specific for both the S and the K functions
for that particular runlevel were contained in the runlevel specific directory,
and were passed thru on the way UP or DOWN to a specific run level.
The RC scripts were generally NOT repeated in any of the other runlevels.

NOW have I gone nuts, was not paying attention in MY class, or simply
am stupider than a box on this ?

And for the NEXT question, are there ANY recommendations on what a
GOOD Distro for using to teach the NEXT class with ?

Thanks ...



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