[TriLUG] Debian vs. Fedora start-up

[Brian McCullough]

On Thu, Jul 13, 2006 at 01:48:37PM -0400, Brian Henning wrote:
> Hiya gang.
> 
> For the longest time, I thought "SysV"-style init specifically meant the 
> sort of init that looked like this (like on RH-based distros):
> 
> Starting some_odd_service                   [  OK  ]
> Starting doomed_to_fail_server              [FAILED]
> 
> ..and that Debian's init was "something else" (I didn't know a name):
> 
> Starting mail agent: exim4
> Starting something else: somethingelsed
> 
> But just now, I read something that called Debian's initscripts "...a 
> clean implementation of SysV boot scripts..." so now I'm not so sure.


Unfortunately, I won't help much, but, I'm afraid to say, that they are
BOTH SysV boot systems.  The "[ OK ]" is just eye-candy.  SysV init
describes the internal workings of the boot system, not how it appears.


B-)

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