Re: Is Linux BSD or System V ?

On 2006-02-27, Dances With Crows <danSPANceswitTRAPhcrows@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Anyway, just about every Linux distro uses SysV-style init scripts
except Slackware. You can check for the presence or absence of
/etc/rc[0-6].d/ or /etc/runlevels/ ; if those are there, you've got SysV
style (or Gentoo style for /etc/runlevels/) init scripts.

I think even that statement is a bit misleading. Even Slackware now
uses scripts which take start|stop|restart arguments, just like the
typical SysV-style scripts do. I think the big difference is not in the
scripts themselves, but how they're called: Slackware calls them
directly from rc.M, which is run by init in runlevels 2345; most other
distros which people call "SysV-style" do what you describe above with
/etc/rc[0-6].d/ .

And, just to get a little crazier, Slackware does provide mechanisms for
running startup scripts SysV-style, if you need it. :)

--keith

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