Re: init.d, rc0.d, ... rc6.d

1998-01-13 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Sen Nagata <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >is there already some administrative command one can use to easily >enable/disable a service? i know it is possible to write scripts to do >this for various services...but perhaps there is already some existing >method? update

Re: init.d, rc0.d, ... rc6.d

1998-01-13 Thread Sen Nagata
at some point around 12 Jan 1998 07:57:06 -0600 [EMAIL PROTECTED] mentioned: > Sen Nagata writes: > > what kind of advantages does this kind of approach have compared to > > having a single file for each run level (or even one file for all > > runlevels) describing which scripts to run (as well

Re: init.d, rc0.d, ... rc6.d

1998-01-12 Thread Joel Klecker
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Regarding "Re: init.d, rc0.d, ... rc6.d" of 9:04 PM -0800 1/11/98, Joey Hess wrote: >Sen Nagata wrote: >> what kind of advantages does this kind of approach have compared to >> having a single file for each run level (or even one

Re: init.d, rc0.d, ... rc6.d

1998-01-12 Thread john
Sen Nagata writes: > what kind of advantages does this kind of approach have compared to > having a single file for each run level (or even one file for all > runlevels) describing which scripts to run (as well as the order to run > them in)? The present system is safer and easier to automate.

Re: init.d, rc0.d, ... rc6.d

1998-01-12 Thread Joey Hess
Sen Nagata wrote: > what kind of advantages does this kind of approach have compared to > having a single file for each run level (or even one file for all > runlevels) describing which scripts to run (as well as the order to run > them in)? There's not much difference, really, though the curren

init.d, rc0.d, ... rc6.d

1998-01-12 Thread Sen Nagata
hello- i've been wondering what the advantages and disadvantages are w.r.t. organizing the run-level changing/initialization scripts in the current manner. right now there are a number of scripts stored in init.d which are referenced by symbolic links from each of the rc*.d directories, right