[PLUG] mandrake

[Galen Seitz]

Jeff Schwaber <freyley at gmx.net> wrote:

> I know there are at least a couple of you out there using Mandrake. I
> remember its startup as being very pretty and being very easy to see
> when something fails because of the little green [OK] and red [FAILED]
> messages. And I'm trying to do that myself on my debian distribution,
> because while Debian is great, it's not always pretty.
> 
> So, if you're a mandrake user and know which script under /etc has
> control over running other scripts and determining if they work, could
> you send me that script? Otherwise, could you send me /etc/inittab and
> the rc script, which in Debian is under /etc/init.d/rc but is probably
> elsewhere on Mandrake? I can track down the chain of command from those
> two. I spent some time on the web, but found little.

This sounds the same as a redhat boot.  Try looking for 
/etc/init.d/functions

galen