On Mon, 12 Mar 2001 05:59, Collins Richey wrote:
> Some questions
>
> 1) Is there any documentation anywhere about the processes that Mandrake
> chooses to start via the init scripts - reason for being, sequencing,
> etc.?
>
The scripts are the standard sysV scripts,
I havn't actually run across a beginning linux book (and I read a few when I
was starting out) that dosn't go though the init process ad-nauseum.
The only thing I've ever seen documentation a bit light on is where
/etc/sysconfig comes into it
> 2) What is the recommended procedure for shutting down the starting of
> some of the processes without permanently removing them in case I want
> them again later? On other distributions, there's usually an
> ONBOOT=YES/No in the scripts to do this.
If you prefer a graphical interface, theres Drakconf, Linuxconf, tksysV, or
Ksysv
The command line offers a powerful tool called chkconfig....read the man page
for all the things you can do with it..I always prefer that becasue it's
simple, fast and works.
>
> 3) on Beta 8.0 there appears to be a complete duplication of scripts in
> /etc/init.d and /etc/rc.d/init.d. Why?
Havn't seen 8.0 but as a guess they would be symlinks (like in MDK 7.2) where
/etc/init.d is symlinked to /etc/rc.d/init.d
This is to comply with LSB requirements, allow older RPM's to still install
correctly and lets Mandrake users install redhat RPM's :)
Hope this helps
Andrew
