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

[Brian Boutel]

Bret Comstock Waldow wrote:

> On Tue, 2003-08-26 at 19:09, Brian Boutel wrote:
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>>Johann Koenig wrote:
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>>>On Mon, 25 Aug 2003 15:15:27 -0400
>>>Bret Comstock Waldow <bwaldow at alum.mit.edu> wrote:
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>>>>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
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>>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?
> 

It's just the common functions used by scripts in init.d

--brian

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Brian Boutel
Wellington New Zealand