Have I gone Nuts?

[Net Llama!]

On 07/14/03 05:21, Ben Duncan wrote:

> <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 ?

So are you saying that there is no /etc/init.d/ with the init scripts, and 
that in /etc/rc.d/rc3 the scripts just are sitting in there, without 
symlinks?  If so, then yea, that is all messed up.

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

I'm rather fond of Redhat.  I'm sure that others will rave about SuSE, or a 
Debian variant, or even Gentoo.
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