Service initialization

Bill Nottingham notting at redhat.com
Mon Feb 2 17:13:12 UTC 2009


Christopher Beland (beland at alum.mit.edu) said: 
> https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/20SecondStartup
> 
> Upstart is or will hopefully be starting services in parallel.

Well, that's likely dependent on a new upstart we don't have yet.

>   If this
> is the case, do the S and K numbers in the symlinks in /etc/rc5.d/*
> really mean much anymore?  Would it be a useful smoke test to reverse
> them all and make sure everything still works?

No. In the absence of anything else to determine dependencies at
runtime, they're still needed.

Bill




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