Have I gone Nuts?

[Shawn Tayler]

I'll chime in with Slackware.  I've found it to be relatively simple to
follow the startup on it.  Its become my fav.....

stayler

On Mon, 14 Jul 2003 06:24:20 -0700 "Net Llama!" <netllama at linux-sxs.org>
professed:

> 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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