[PLUG] Mac OS X for Linux admin -- server

[Roderick A. Anderson]

On 07/05/2012 10:58 AM, Ronald Chmara wrote:
> On Thu, Jul 5, 2012 at 9:44 AM, Paul Heinlein<heinlein at madboa.com>  wrote:
>> On Wed, 4 Jul 2012, Roderick A. Anderson wrote:
>>> The biggest issue right now is the init system.  How does Mac OS do it.
>>> The Redhat based systems use SysV, init.d, etc.  I thought the BSD
>>> derivatives used an init.d or rc.d Couldn't figure out how to
>>> start/stop/reload a service.
>>
>> See the launchctl(1), launchd.plist(5), and launchd(8) man pages. OS X has a
>> concept of daemons that are system-wide and/or per-user.
>
> Yeah, totally different world....
> http://osxdaily.com/2010/02/17/track-down-all-startup-login-script-and-application-launches-in-mac-os-x/

Thanks Ron.  Man ... was there a exodus of Microsoft programmers to 
Apple?  That set up makes about as much sense as the Windows Registry. 
Caveat: I'm no Windows expert I just have to deal with a dozen or so 
servers every so often.


Again thanks,
Rod
-- 
>
> They're all over the place, and a great many are not based on shell
> scripts or init/rc conventions.
>
> -Ronabop
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