On Wed, 20 Jan 2016 20:23:10 +0000
Rainer Weikusat <rainerweikusat@???> wrote:

> Steve Litt <slitt@???> writes:
> > People aren't completely alone on run scripts: I can give them any
> > run scripts I'm using. Also, Runit run scripts are *nothing* like
> > sysvinit or OpenRC init scripts:
>
> There is no such thing as a "sysvinit init script". The way the
> sysvinit program is usually employed on Linux is such that it's
> instructed to run the command /etc/init.d/rc with the run-level


> The commands which are actually executed via these S- and K-links come
> from individual packages and ultimatively contain whatever the people
> responsible for that considered sensible.

The actual files to which the S- and K-links point are the "init
scripts" to which I refer. So perhaps I used the wrong name for them.
Anyway, they're usually an unholy mess, usually over 40 lines, I think
I remember seeing some go over 100.

SteveT

Steve Litt
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