Have I gone Nuts?

[David A. Bandel]

On Mon, 14 Jul 2003 07:21:28 -0500
Ben Duncan <bns at meta3.net> wrote:

> <LOL> ..
[snip]

> 
> 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.

Sounds like SUN.

> 
> 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.

This sounds like HP, AIX, or SUN.

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

every vendor has their own way to do "SysV" startups.  I've kinda been
waiting for folks to break away from the RH way.  And of course every
Systems Engineer has their own, better way to do it.  Heck, there's even
a replacement startup script system written in Perl (not sure you need
that kind of regex power just to run a few daemons, but hey, what do I
know?).

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

One you've familiarized yourself with ;-).  Seriously, you can grab any
one you want (Debian, RH, Slack -- well, maybe not Slack unless you want
to show the difference between SysV and BSD initialization).  Just go
through the scripts and make sure _you_ understand how that particular
distro works init before you go to class.

If you really want to frighten the children, take HP-UX or AIX to class
with you too.

Ciao,

David A. Bandel
-- 
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