Interesting article on boot ordering

Sean Middleditch elanthis at awesomeplay.com
Sat Sep 20 04:39:06 UTC 2003


On Fri, 2003-09-19 at 17:24, Enrico Scholz wrote:
> bwheadley at earthlink.net ("Bryan W. Headley") writes:
> 
> >> There are existing better methods like minit[1] or runit[2] which
> >> are implementing dependencies also, which are having very fast
> >> startup/shutdown times and which are restarting died processes
> >> automatically.
> >
> > Is there anything which understands init levels in minit?
> 
> It is not called 'init level' there, but there exists a similar mechanism.

How would one handle LSB compliance then?

> 
> 
> > E.g., one level runs X, another doesn't?
> 
> minit uses argv[1] or 'default' as startup-service. So you can
> create e.g. a 'default-X' service and use the kernel-cmdline
> 
> | kernel ... init=/sbin/minit default-X
> 
> 
> 
> 
> Enrico
> 
> 
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