On Fri, 28 Sep 2001, Anders Johansson wrote:
Just read /etc/rc.d/boot. Read the SOURCE and not comments to find out facts.
I have. /etc/rc.d/boot is run by init as the first thing by init. This is followed by running /etc/rc.d/rc which in turn runs the scripts in /etc/rc.d/rc#.d/. I don't see how this contradicts what I said?!
Ok. Long explanation. First, I haven't actually tried it... I only looked at the sources (shell). - Start with /etc/inittab There's no 'sysinit' and no 'boot', only a 'bootwait' (these three entries are possible for what will be the very first process init calls) The bootwait line starts /etc/init.d/boot - Let's go to /etc/init.d/boot Wait a moment... I take back everything I said, it is as you said. It's time I read the SuSE README in /etc/init.d/ about the SuSE boot concept... But it shows again: That's what I like about working in the US rather than in Germany. In Germany, you do everything right and are polite, and the customers (at least an incredibly high number, of course not all) will tell you how disappointed they are with your service and your high prices. This is not just an opensource thing, about a year ago in the editorial section of one of the best Computer papers in the world (iX, nothing like it in the US, here every magazine is 70% ad's and the rest isn't that good either; unfortunately they are not ambitious enough to try to conquer the US market, like many German companies) the author wrote about his personal experiences with feedback mail to them. The one thing I remember was a student who asked him lots of questions that clearly needed lots of research which the student could do himself, all for a scientific paper that guy had to write, and he complained bitterly when the iX-writer very politely pointed this out about the "utter lack of service". Strange enough, the Germans always look to America when they talk about how the "service culture" is under-developed in Germany. If only they knew (they never tried to get a "service representative" to do something that's not directly in his reference book - I recently tried to open a bank account and "only" have a cellphone, and the company pays and not me, but their procedures require address verification via the phone numver...)! People here are content with so little. This was another good example. I write complete BS and the one who apologizes is... the other person (obviously American). I love this country, it's great to do business in ;-) Michael