praka123
18-01-2007, 11:53 PM
I use Debian GNU/Linux and earlier (and still) most distros uses sysVinit for managing init processes.I tried Initng (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Initng) and upstart (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Upstart)
Both are fast compared to the old sysvinit and its /etc/init.d/ and starts processes asynchronously thus faster.but initng lacked some new scripts(ifiles).so the option i had was to use upstart.Any others here using Initng on Linux esp Debian or Ubuntu....below is the repo line for debian/ubuntu /etc/apt/sources.list for latest initng builds
deb http://debian.space-based.de/debs/ experimental main other replacement init scripts includes :runit,minit etc
please share your thoughts about sysVinit replacements here :)
init
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Init#searchInput)
The correct title of this article is init. The initial letter is shown capitalized due to technical restrictions (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Naming_conventions_%28technical_restrict ions%29#Lower_case_first_letter).
init (short for "initialization (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Initialization)") is the program on Unix (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unix) and Unix-like (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unix-like) systems that spawns all other processes. It runs as a daemon (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daemon_%28computer_software%29) and typically has PID (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Process_identifier) 1.
The functionality diverged, in Unixes such as System III (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unix_System_III) and System V (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UNIX_System_V), from the functionality provided by the init in Research Unix (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Research_Unix) and its BSD (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Berkeley_Software_Distribution) derivatives. The usage on most Linux distributions (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linux_distribution) is compatible with System V, but some distributions, such as Slackware (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slackware), use a BSD-style and others, such as Gentoo Linux (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gentoo_Linux), have their own customized version.
Opinions on the relative merits of different schemes can be strongly held, leading both to occasional "flame wars (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flaming)", and also to the development of several alternatives.
Both are fast compared to the old sysvinit and its /etc/init.d/ and starts processes asynchronously thus faster.but initng lacked some new scripts(ifiles).so the option i had was to use upstart.Any others here using Initng on Linux esp Debian or Ubuntu....below is the repo line for debian/ubuntu /etc/apt/sources.list for latest initng builds
deb http://debian.space-based.de/debs/ experimental main other replacement init scripts includes :runit,minit etc
please share your thoughts about sysVinit replacements here :)
init
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Init#searchInput)
The correct title of this article is init. The initial letter is shown capitalized due to technical restrictions (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Naming_conventions_%28technical_restrict ions%29#Lower_case_first_letter).
init (short for "initialization (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Initialization)") is the program on Unix (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unix) and Unix-like (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unix-like) systems that spawns all other processes. It runs as a daemon (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daemon_%28computer_software%29) and typically has PID (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Process_identifier) 1.
The functionality diverged, in Unixes such as System III (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unix_System_III) and System V (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UNIX_System_V), from the functionality provided by the init in Research Unix (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Research_Unix) and its BSD (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Berkeley_Software_Distribution) derivatives. The usage on most Linux distributions (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linux_distribution) is compatible with System V, but some distributions, such as Slackware (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slackware), use a BSD-style and others, such as Gentoo Linux (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gentoo_Linux), have their own customized version.
Opinions on the relative merits of different schemes can be strongly held, leading both to occasional "flame wars (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flaming)", and also to the development of several alternatives.