RC scripts

[eric56657765786865]

I found your note See below NOTE. I want you to know I'm thankful for SuSE contributors efforts but I think that changing the runlevel scripts was a waste of time. A huge waste of time, I'm going to spend the next two hours learning your NEW system. multiply that two hours of my time by the number of UNIX geeks in the world. Why mess with something that has worked well for decades. I hope I'm not alone when I ask that you put that back the way it was when you found it. Please. RedHat and Debian have not changed this and nether should SuSE.

NOTE:

Hi!

Some people expect the system startup scripts in /etc/rc.d/.
We use a slightly different structure for better LSB compliance.
You can find the equivalent files in /etc/init.d/.
The behaviour of the scripts can be configured in the files
below the directory /etc/sysconfig/.

For detailed information please have a look into the SuSE Linux manual.
If you don't have a printed manual, you can find the electronic version
in /docu on the first CDROM or in the package 'books.rpm'.

You may also want to read /etc/init.d/README for more information.

Have a lot of fun

Your SuSE Team

[eric56657765786865]

Ahh, I found them in /etc/init.d. at least they still exist and it only took 30 min.

[Chrysantine]

In other words you're an amateur that didn't know what you were doing and that's SuSEs fault?

Grats.

[deltaflyer44]

Hmm, not a poll or survey.No cry for help,Methinks i'll move this to Soapbox

Andy

[Akoellh]

To completely show the level of incompetence the TE has, three little details.

1) The standard path for init-scripts has been /etc/init.d/ for several years now, not only under openSUSE, but ....

2) RedHat and Debian use /etc/init.d/ for init-scripts as well (to be precise, distros usingg BSD-style init are the only ones still using /etc/rc.d, examples might be Arch and Slackware)

3)and to put the cherry on top:

ls -l /etc/rc.d
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 6 Feb  2 20:27 /etc/rc.d -> init.d

there is a symlink under openSUSE, so you can also call init-scripts with "/etc/rc.d/$FOO {start|stop|whatever}"

[hendersj]

On Thu, 21 May 2009 21:36:02 +0000, Akoellh wrote:

> To completely show the level of incompetence the TE has

Is that *really* necessary? I mean come on, so the guy made a mistake.
Don't make him think that our community is an unfriendly place that
delights in saying "hey, this person was really stupid!".

<shaking head>

Jim

[Akoellh]

In this case _yes_, because you can NOT miss out the rc-scripts, no matter if you use /etc/rc.d or /etc/inint.d, it is just not possible.

So the only explanation is that we are dealing with a troll here.

[Chrysantine]

Originally Posted by hendersj

Don't make him think that our community is an unfriendly place that delights in saying "hey, this person was really stupid!".

As with almost every single poster I've buried so far he did one critical little mistake - his first post here was a flaming one and worst of all, he was completely bat <cuss> clueless about the whole deal yet claimed this and that.

If he was able to find the rc.* scripts, he bloody well should've seen that they were nothing more than symlinks. What kind of an "IT professional" can't see that?

[hendersj]

On Thu, 21 May 2009 21:56:01 +0000, Chrysantine wrote:

> hendersj;1989559 Wrote:
>> Don't make him think that our community is an unfriendly place that
>> delights in saying "hey, this person was really stupid!".
> As with almost every single poster I've buried so far he did one
> critical little mistake - his first post here was a flaming one and
> worst of all, he was completely bat <cuss> clueless about the whole deal
> yet claimed this and that.
>
> If he was able to find the rc.* scripts, he bloody well should've seen
> that they were nothing more than symlinks. What kind of an "IT
> professional" can't see that?

All of which may be true, but there's no "rule" that says that (a) we
have to respond in kind, and (b) that we have to keep kicking the OP in
any such thread when he's down.

Again, it feeds into the whole idea that Linux users can't act like
adults, and that helps those who compete against Linux.

Jim

[hendersj]

On Thu, 21 May 2009 21:56:01 +0000, Akoellh wrote:

> In this case _yes_, because you can NOT miss out the rc-scripts, no
> matter if you use /etc/rc.d or /etc/inint.d, it is just not possible.
>
> So the only explanation is that we are dealing with a troll here.

So ignore the trolls. This isn't alt.flame.

Jim