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| README for the System V style init, version 2.86 |
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| init, shutdown, halt, reboot, wall, last, mesg, runlevel, |
| killall5, pidof, sulogin. |
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| All programs, files and scripts in this package are covered by |
| the Gnu Public License, and copyrighted by me. |
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| If you are not using Debian and the debianized package, |
| you will have to install the new init by hand. You should |
| be able to drop the binaries into a Slackware or Redhat |
| system, I think. |
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| Here is a list of preferred directories to install the progs & manpages: |
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| wall.1, last.1, mesg.1 /usr/man/man1 |
| inittab.5, initscript.5 /usr/man/man5 |
| init.8, halt.8, reboot.8, |
| shutdown.8, powerd.8, |
| killall5.8, pidof.8, |
| runlevel.8, sulogin.8 /usr/man/man8 |
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| init /sbin/init |
| inittab /etc/inittab |
| initscript.sample /etc/initscript.sample |
| telinit a link (with ln(1) ) to init, either |
| in /bin or in /sbin. |
| halt /sbin/halt |
| reboot a link to /sbin/halt in the same directory |
| killall5 /sbin/killall5 |
| pidof a link to /sbin/killall5 in the same directory. |
| runlevel /sbin/runlevel |
| shutdown /sbin/shutdown. |
| wall /usr/bin/wall |
| mesg /usr/bin/mesg |
| last /usr/bin/last |
| sulogin /sbin/sulogin |
| bootlogd /sbin/bootlogd |
| utmpdump don't install, it's just a debug thingy. |
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| If you already _have_ a "wall" in /bin (the SLS release had, for example) |
| do _not_ install this wall. Chances are that the wall you are already |
| using is linked to /bin/write. Either first _remove_ /bin/wall before |
| installing the new one, or don't install the new one at all. |
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| You might want to create a file called "/etc/shutdown.allow". Read the |
| manual page on shutdown to find out more about this. |
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| Running from a read-only file system (CDROM?): |
| o All communication to init goes through the FIFO /dev/initctl. |
| There should be no problem using a read-only root file system |
| IF you use a Linux kernel > 1.3.66. Older kernels don't allow |
| writing to a FIFO on a read-only file system. |
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| Miquel van Smoorenburg <miquels@cistron.nl> |