[wellylug] wot's in /etc/init.d/functions? from Re: how to adapt this iptables setup?

[Bret Comstock Waldow]

On Tue, 2003-08-26 at 19:09, Brian Boutel wrote:
>  
> 
> Johann Koenig wrote:
> 
> > On Mon, 25 Aug 2003 15:15:27 -0400
> > Bret Comstock Waldow <bwaldow at alum.mit.edu> wrote:
> > 
> > 
> >>Ok.  There is no /etc/rc.d in my Debian system.  /etc/rcX.d has some
> >>meaning beyond just being another place to gather files - it
> >>corresponds to runlevel X, and gets swept automatically as the system
> >>passes through that runlevel.  What is the meaning and equivalent of
> >>/etc/rc.d?  The other directories referenced appear to exist.
> > 
> > 
> > Usually scripts are put in /etc/init.d in debian and symlinked to
> > /etc/rcX.d (X being the runlevel) with the appropriate Sxx/Kxx (xx
> > corresponding to the order in which the scripts are run) prefix. I would
> > assume from what you are saying is that /etc/rc.d is the RH equiv of
> > /etc/init.d
> 
> 
> No. In RH, /etc/rc.d contains links to the various /etc/rcX.d 
> directories and init.d, and misc rc files like rc, rc.local and rc.sysinit.
> 
> I assume that conventions have changed over time, so the present mess is 
> designed to ensure that programs that refer to /etc/rcX.d/Sxxscript or 
> to /etc/rc.d/rcX.d/Sxxscript will all work.

Sigh.  Here's another one.  One of his scripts has a line that
references "/etc/init.d/functions".  Can someone with RH or Mandrake
tell me what is in this script?

thanks,
Bret

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