Re: [Nolug] Gentoo?

Judson Lester <jlester@tulane.edu> writes:

> My real gripe is that it's boot control is BSD-like. Eh. Bunch of
> scripts live in /etc/init.d. Which means that a> It's very easy to
> add commands that should run once on boot, but that b> it's not so
> easy to use init.d scripts by hand and

How so?
"/etc/init.d/whatever stop|start|restart"

pretty standard stuff.

>c> there's no guarantees about
> maintaining services once they're up. (I was amused, though, that

It uses stop-start-daemon for most services (from Debian).
all the pid and state info is in /var/run.

Basically, I'm not sure what you mean about "guarantees" of services
being up.

-- 
Scott Harney<scotth@scottharney.com>
"...and one script to rule them all."
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