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- From: poe@daimi.aau.dk (Peter Orbaek)
- Subject: Re: [ANNOUNCE] poeigl-1.7 and admutil-1.4 available
- Message-ID: <1992Nov10.090314.22112@daimi.aau.dk>
- Sender: news@daimi.aau.dk
- Organization: DAIMI: Computer Science Department, Aarhus University, Denmark
- References: <1992Nov3.090246.29076@daimi.aau.dk> <921105155@avatar.GUN.de> <1992Nov9.185529.12251@sfu.ca>
- Date: Tue, 10 Nov 92 09:03:14 GMT
- Lines: 37
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- rchen@fraser.sfu.ca (Robert Chen) writes:
-
- >In article <921105155@avatar.GUN.de> sebi@avatar.GUN.de (Sebastian Lederer) writes:
- [... about the benefits of using the sysv compatible init instead of the
- simple one, runlevels and all ...]
-
- Robert Chen:
- >I agree that the SysV compatible stuff is "better" because of the
- >reasons outlined above. Is there any reason that we cannot use the
- >ysV init as the Standard init for Linux? I think having two inits
- >around is a Bad Thing (tm) anyway - it confuses matters for no really
- >good reason.
-
- >Peter: Would it be possible for you to fold Sebastian's patches back
- >into the admutils package? Would you consider just providing the SysV
- >init? You pretty much control what Linux's login sequence looks like
- >(realistically).
-
- I already mailed Sebastian asking him for his patches. There will
- have to be a few more changes to sysvinit though, such as handling
- the INT signal from the kernel to initiate a reboot.
-
- I think that sysvinit will be the default to install in the next
- version of the poeigl package unless I encounter overwhelming
- problems with it.
-
- Simpleinit was getting too big after all, so I might as well give in to
- the featuritis that I think a sysv init represents. :-)
-
- >Please let us know what you think.
-
- >- Ken
-
- - Peter.
- --
- Peter Orbaek <poe@daimi.aau.dk>
- Hasle Ringvej 122, DK-8200 Aarhus N, DENMARK
-