[lug] DNS and init

[Hugh Brown]

inittab can do the runlevel thing, you just have to order the entries
correctly which really isn't that different from the rc[n].d
directories.

Agreed on backtracking when something won't start (been bit by NFS, NIS,
etc hanging at boot time far too often)

Hugh


On Wed, 2002-02-06 at 06:16, rm at fabula.de wrote:
> On Tue, Feb 05, 2002 at 02:47:39PM -0500, Hugh Brown wrote:
> > I think I remember that this was just the difference between the System
> > V derivates and the BSD derivates.
> > 
> > In AIX for instance, /etc/inittab is flush with entries for starting all
> > sorts of daemons.  In Linux, it's mostly in the runlevels.
> 
> 
> Sorry for jumping in so late. I think "runlevel" is the key word here.
> Quite a lot of services/daemons depend on other services to run at all.
> To have a working DNS or firewall the network has to be up and running.
> The runlevel style of startup gives you just this -- control over what
> runs when.
> As a side note: i think it's time for a better init system. Something
> that can do backtracking and try several alternative ways to start up
> a system (Prolog? LISP?).
> 
>     Ralf
> 
> > 
> > I remember reading this in Essential Unix System Administration by
> > Frisch.
> > 
> > One thing I did notice is that in Linux the labels in /etc/inittab is
> > limited to four characters.
> > 
> > Hugh
> > 
> > 
> > On Sun, 2002-02-03 at 23:34, Chip Atkinson wrote:
> > > Greetings,
> > > 
> > > Is there a good reason to not put named and some other daemons into
> > > /etc/inittab?  It seems like a good idea on the surface but I haven't seen
> > > it done much.  It seems to be a pretty obvious idea so there must be some
> > > reason for it not being done.  Can anyone shed some light on this?
> > > 
> > > Thanks.
> > > Chip