Re^2: mkitab command

Moron, this entire thread seems entirely off-topic for PM, so I don't want to expand it unnecessarily. But I do have to question the wisdom of recommending an entirely non-standard (and somewhat controversial) init system over a system which comes as standard with every Linux distro out there. Especially since the OP does not seem very proficient in Linux (otherwise he probably wouldn't have asked this question, no offense to the OP intended).

Don't get me wrong, I'm not trying to start an "inittab is better than daemontools" flame-war here, but I think your recommendation is inappropriate.

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Re^3: mkitab command by Moron (Curate) on Oct 11, 2005 at 10:47 UTC
And the reverse was not my intention either. It can hardly hurt for the OP to be aware that there are more ways than inittab to do the job. That's what the link did in this respect - it provides a list of alternatives which the Op could look into further. If you insist that there is a single standard init system with linux then maybe you should study the alternatives (and their precise purposes) in more detail yourself rather than assume, like too many people here, that the way you know best for doing something just must be the only right way. -M Free your mind	[reply]
Re^4: mkitab command by tirwhan (Abbot) on Oct 11, 2005 at 12:39 UTC
I am well aware of the alternatives and use daemontools on a couple of my own machines. However, the fact remains that inittab is installed by default by all Linux distributions out there. Thus, is has to be considered the standard init system on Linux. If you can convince the maintainers of Redhat, Debian, Suse etc. to switch systems to daemontools I'll applaud you and gladly call it the standard system, but until then naysaying the existence of a standard init system just smacks of blind DJB-idolatry. More to the point of my reply, if someone is new to Linux and has used inittab on a different UNIX in the past, and asks about the particulars of using it under Linux, then IMO it is unhelpful to point out the existence of one alternative system which is very much different and not at all globally accepted in the community. If you'd pointed out others and warned that switching can lead to severe problems with one's system as well, I would not have complained. 'Nuff said, it's getting increasingly pointless to reply to a deleted and offtopic node. P.S. on a lighter note: I believe you mean expound, not expunge ;-)	[reply]
Re^5: mkitab command by Moron (Curate) on Oct 11, 2005 at 15:01 UTC
inittab is only one mechanism of the system you refer to, not the whole system as can simply be verified by examining the contents of the /etc/init.d directory. But then of course, we don't even have enough information to know if the requirement really belongs in system startup - it could belong somewhere else entirely if we only knew more about the requirement! -M Free your mind	[reply]