From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 11847 invoked by uid 1002); 2 May 2003 19:56:51 -0000 Mailing-List: contact gentoo-dev-help@gentoo.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org Received: (qmail 18155 invoked from network); 2 May 2003 19:56:51 -0000 From: Paul de Vrieze To: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org Date: Fri, 2 May 2003 21:56:34 +0200 User-Agent: KMail/1.5.1 References: In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; micalg=pgp-sha1; boundary="Boundary-02=_A2ss+WK6o+9cMiZ"; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <200305022156.48423.pauldv@gentoo.org> X-Spam-Status: No, hits=-5.1 required=5.0 X-Spam-Level: X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-milter (http://amavis.org/) Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Init replacement X-Archives-Salt: 7541a5cd-0177-45b8-a1e6-d8b34cee2d68 X-Archives-Hash: 930c5b0f8e5a44fbdbc1dcca0ef32a4d --Boundary-02=_A2ss+WK6o+9cMiZ Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Description: signed data Content-Disposition: inline On Friday 02 May 2003 21:23, Wouter van Kleunen wrote: > > For example firewall generators generate init scripts. And sysvinit > frontends (KDE has a frontend) uses it. I think also mandrake has a > frontend for selecting which services get booted. I dunno about suse or > red hat. I don't say these distro's should immediatly start using this > init. But your claim that only 1 program parses these files is not true. =46irewall generators generate scripts to stard firewalls. As long as they = just=20 output a simple script, any kind of init system can be used to execute them= =2E=20 selecting frontends do not generate scripts. They do not look into them, th= ey=20 just make symlinks > The same goes for all these init methods. Every distro uses a different > init method That's true, I guess its basically because the s??[name] way sucks in=20 combination with tools (as there are only 100 positions, and there is no=20 standardized way to know at which position a package should be=20 started/stoped.=20 Paul =2D-=20 Paul de Vrieze Researcher Mail: pauldv@cs.kun.nl Homepage: http://www.devrieze.net --Boundary-02=_A2ss+WK6o+9cMiZ Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Description: signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.1 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQA+ss2AbKx5DBjWFdsRAlBFAKCOZmzUivx9BAa/2qXjcosZa/HFQQCgynJd ELHOMh5RznYRp3M+dOiW6LU= =Wp89 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --Boundary-02=_A2ss+WK6o+9cMiZ--