redhat_vs_sysV

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Date: Mon, 25 Sep 2000 17:47:14 -0700
To: svlug@svlug.org
Subject: Re: Fwd: Re: [svlug] SuSE scripts
From: Rick Moen <rick@linuxmafia.com>

begin  Ivan Passos quotation:

>> So, it turns out (I'm stressing this for Ivan's benefit) that the answer
>> is that there is _not_ a SuSE-specific tool; you just do things the
>> standard SysVInit way.
> 
> That's true for the "script calling", but not for the script location and
> script / config. file formats.

Would you mind explaining?  I have accounts on SuSE systems.  (I've run
it in the past.)  I've always successfully admined them by treating them
as standard SysVInit setups in the past.

Possibly, you're thinking of some system details not relevant to my
comment?

> Anyhow, the part for the K's and S's I already knew (Red Hat goes
> exactly the same way, which is, as Rick said, the SysVInit way).

Well, except Red Hat invented that rc.d directory level, which is
non-standard.

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