[PLUG] Debian question, running pump on boot

Anthony Schlemmer aschlemm at attbi.com
Mon Sep 2 18:07:02 UTC 2002


SuSE has quite a few services that are started when the system boots and 
it's alot easier having a Sys V init IMHO. I agree it's more 
complicated since you have to decide what runlevel you want a service 
to run at but it does bring some order into would otherwise be a big 
mess. 

When a system is simple I don't mind using the BSD-style init. Like I 
said I have a OpenBSD system and my setup is pretty simple. About the 
only service beyond the basics I have running under OpenBSD is Samba.

Tony

On Monday 02 September 2002 10:49 am, AthlonRob wrote:
> On Mon, 2002-09-02 at 10:36, Anthony Schlemmer wrote:
> > I don't care for the BSD-style as it's a bit simplistic with all of
> > the local customizations in a single file. The Sys V init setup is
> > more flexible as it's just a matter of setting a few symbolic links
> > to the init script in the proper runlevel directory.
> >
> > I haven't seen a BSD-style init setup in Linux since I used
> > Slackware. I do have one OpenBSD system that I'm working on but so
> > far my local init setup is quite simple.
>
> I think BSD vs SysV style inits are just a matter of personal
> opinion. You like SysV because you can just go in and change a
> symlink... I like BSD because I can just go in and comment out a
> line.
>
> I always feel like I get a better grasp of what is happening with the
> BSD inits, I can *read* the sequence from start to finish.  :-)
>
> But, it isn't for everybody.  I guess if you had a ton of things
> starting up with the system (Slackware keeps it somewhat minimal)
> SysV might be better from an administrative point of view.  Drizzle
> has a billion things starting up, I saw.  I always keep my system
> running as few things on startup as possible... and what it does
> start up, odds are I compiled it from source with as many
> optimizations as I could safely get it to compile with.  :-)

-- 
Anthony Schlemmer
aschlemm at attbi.com
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