On Lun 1 août 2005 12:32, Andrew Haley wrote:
Nicolas Mailhot writes:
>
> On Lun 1 août 2005 06:22, John M. Gabriele wrote:
>
> > Hmm... Why didn't the rpm packager create at least a simple
> > readme saying how to stop and start this software?
>
> Because this is Red Hat administration 101 and all the system daemons
are
> managed this way (mtas, httpd servers, etc). In fact it's not even Red
Hat
> specific because this kind of initialisation script is standardised at
the
> LSB level.
This way to start daemons comes from UNIX System V, AFAIK. That makes
in January 1983, a mere 22 years ago. Unless it was actually part of
SVR4, in which case it was 1988, a mere 17 years ago.
Right. I didn't want to enter in all those persky details to make my point ;)
--
Nicolas Mailhot