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On Friday 02 May 2003 21:23, Wouter van Kleunen wrote: |
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> For example firewall generators generate init scripts. And sysvinit |
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> frontends (KDE has a frontend) uses it. I think also mandrake has a |
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> frontend for selecting which services get booted. I dunno about suse or |
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> red hat. I don't say these distro's should immediatly start using this |
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> init. But your claim that only 1 program parses these files is not true. |
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Firewall generators generate scripts to stard firewalls. As long as they just |
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output a simple script, any kind of init system can be used to execute them. |
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selecting frontends do not generate scripts. They do not look into them, they |
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just make symlinks |
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> The same goes for all these init methods. Every distro uses a different |
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> init method |
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That's true, I guess its basically because the s??[name] way sucks in |
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combination with tools (as there are only 100 positions, and there is no |
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standardized way to know at which position a package should be |
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started/stoped. |
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Paul |
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