Olaf Meeuwissen via Dng said on Sun, 06 Aug 2023 14:39:07 +0900

>Hi,
>
>altoid via Dng <dng@???> writes:
>
>> Hello:
>>
>> On 5 Aug 2023 at 17:46, Steve Litt wrote:
>>
>>> Several of your daemons end with ".sh". Are those home grown
>>> shellscripts?
>> No, all that is rather above my pay grade, so to speak.
>> They are probably there from when this box ran on jesse.
>>
>> eg: I looked up bootmisc.sh and you can find it here:
>>
>> https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=743743
>>
>> I expect that the rest of the *.sh have the same Debian/Devuan
>> origins.
>
>For the ones that I have, I see
>
> $ dpkg -S $(ls /etc/init.d/*.sh)
> initscripts: /etc/init.d/bootmisc.sh
> initscripts: /etc/init.d/checkfs.sh
> initscripts: /etc/init.d/checkroot-bootclean.sh
> initscripts: /etc/init.d/checkroot.sh
> console-setup-freebsd: /etc/init.d/console-setup.sh
> console-setup-linux: /etc/init.d/console-setup.sh
> initscripts: /etc/init.d/hostname.sh
> util-linux-extra: /etc/init.d/hwclock.sh
> console-setup-freebsd: /etc/init.d/keyboard-setup.sh
> console-setup-linux: /etc/init.d/keyboard-setup.sh
> initscripts: /etc/init.d/mountall-bootclean.sh
> initscripts: /etc/init.d/mountall.sh
> initscripts: /etc/init.d/mountdevsubfs.sh
> initscripts: /etc/init.d/mountkernfs.sh
> initscripts: /etc/init.d/mountnfs-bootclean.sh
> initscripts: /etc/init.d/mountnfs.sh
> initscripts: /etc/init.d/umountnfs.sh
>
>so the bulk is from initscripts, which is a runit-init dependency. It
>is also a dependency alternative of console-setup-linux on my system
>(instead of init-system-helpers).
>
>Hope this helps,

Thanks Olaf,

:-) I'm more confused than ever. But there's plenty of time to learn
the design philosophy behind these (presumably) shellscripts while
building run scripts for the obvious ones.

Thanks,

SteveT