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[Gerald Roehrbein]

Hello Michael,

thanks a lot for your corrections.


> No, in Redhat you can put files in /etc/rc?.d, just like in SuSE,
> Solaris, etc., and things will work; chkconfig is there to "do that for
> you" by creating the symbolic links to the real file in /etc/init.d,
> as is best practice on all SysV init systems.  (I used to have great
> trouble on Solaris systems with people or third party software which
> would put files in /etc/rc?.d directly...)

Under Solaris you have to do all of this manually. There is no tool
except  vi and ln to assist. That's the difference. In a Solaris or SuSE
environment it would work to create a start or kill script in the
runlevel directory. Doing so with Red Hat (RHEL9) will not work.  

> Debian is in no way related to UNITED LINUX.  See
> http://www.unitedlinux.com/ for more details about United Linux, but
> basically, the Debian Project is older than United Linux, and is based on
> a different packaging system to United Linux (among other distinctions).

Someone told me years ago. I've not evaluated this. Thank for this
information. Probably someone created from the "new united package of
Debian" a relation to United Linux. So a myth starts. Since round about
6 years nobody corrected me with that! Thanks! 




kind regards
Gerald