On Sun, Sep 28, 2014 at 01:48:47PM -0700, koanhead wrote: > On 09/25/2014 05:00 PM, Chris Bannister wrote: > > On Thu, Sep 25, 2014 at 03:15:36PM -0700, koanhead wrote: > >> can't use. > >> > >> I brought this up once on #offtopic and was told that sysvinit doesn't > >> work on bsds (that's a paraphrase using the same words, not a quote) and > >> then ridiculed. > > > > It's not that sysvinit doesn't work on bsds, it might, it's that the > > BSD's use different init systems. > > > > https://www.usenix.org/legacy/events/usenix01/freenix01/full_papers/mewburn/mewburn_html/ > > > I'm aware of BSD-style init, but the mailing-list thread [1] I posted
[1] reference is missing. > indicates that Debian GNU/kFreeBSD doesn't use it but instead uses > sysvinit (otherwise they wouldn't care so much about bitrot among > sysvinit scripts nor cite "stay with sysvinit" as among their options.) > In the context of a discussion about Debian, I don't care so much what > the other BSD variants do. You wrote above: "... told that sysvinit doesn't work on bsds ..." It reads as though you were referring to the BSD variants. -- "If you're not careful, the newspapers will have you hating the people who are being oppressed, and loving the people who are doing the oppressing." --- Malcolm X -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/20140929003515.GC8956@tal
