Question for Unix admins

[Belisarius]

I've been playing around with Slackware some more, and the way it handles startup/shutdown is very different from the way I'm used to it in Redhat. In Redhat, you create scripts and put them in init.d, and then link to those scripts in the appropriate rc#.d directory. In Slack, you put the script in rc.d, and edit a rc.# configuration file and call it from there. I know Slackware has a reputation for being standard-Unix-like, whereas Redhat has a reputation for doing this its own way. I was wondering, however, what really is the standard way of handling startup/shutdown, as most of the documentation I've been exposed to assumes the Redhat method?

[idx]

Good ole' BSD vs SysV

http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2004...SD_Basics.html

Truthfully I've never liked the SysV symlink setup, but that's just my preference. (maybe it was from starting with Slackware years ago. )

I think the only two linux distros I'd use these days are Slackware and Gentoo if I couldn't use FreeBSD. (rc.conf and the ports just work too well)

edit: to answer more of your question, it seems that more of the Linux distros use the SysV method. I honestly can't remember what AIX uses, but I can check tomorrow.

-r

[Belisarius]

Ah, thanks!