Talking to a friend the subject of SysV-init vs BSD-style init
came up. I like SysV's /etc/init.d component because it gives
you simple on/off controls for all the system daemons, all in
the same place, and named predictably. I don't particularly care
for the 'runlevels' idea because they seem to be different on
different systems despite an 'official' definition, and they also
seem... inflexible. I remembered running across Richard Gooch's
Linux Boot Scripts
awhile back on s weetcode
(if you're a sysadmin or programmer and you haven't been
there, go now, explore the archives, and finish reading this when you're
done... which means I won't expect you to finish reading this until
maybe tomorrow, or the day after, or perhaps next week) and wondered
if there was a debian package for
'em. Sure enough, there wasn't - despite debian using the 'util-linux'
package, they also use the separate 'sysvinit' package instead of the
simpleinit that comes with util-linux. So, disappointingly, there's no
way for me to try out the LBS dependency-based init scheme... unless I
build it myself. But if I'm going to build it myself, I might as well
package it up so others can use it too, right? and submit the patch to
the maintainer...
