[Glibc-bsd-devel] sysvinit

[Nathan Hawkins]

On Sun, Oct 05, 2003 at 09:09:23PM +0200, Guillem Jover wrote:
> On Sun, Oct 05, 2003 at 05:35:59PM +0000, Robert Millan wrote:
> > For those of you who feel brave to try it out, you need to install it manualy
> > because the FreeBSD init (installed by default) is version 5.0:
> > 
> >   wget -c ftp://khazad.dyndns.org/pub/apt/dists/unstable/main/binary-freebsd-i386/sysvinit_2.85-7+kbsd_freebsd-i386.deb
> >   dpkg -i sysvinit_2.85-7+kbsd_freebsd-i386.deb
> > 
> > Have fun (specialy if it renders your system unbootable) ;)
> 
> It's probable it will if you don't install
> initscripts_2.85-7+kbsd_all.deb and sysv-rc_2.85-7+kbsd_all.deb. =P

There are a number of things that will need to go in those that aren't
on linux. I know about some, but best approach is probably to go through
BSD rc scripts, and find out what it does.

> It fails when shuting down the system because start-stop-deamon does not
> stop daemons and also inetd cannot be stopped because a problem on the
> pid file, thus file systems are in use and cannot be unmounted. But I'm
> working on them. Also I've had a regression, the halt command was working
> but I did some chnages and now it reboots, I'll look at this as well.

I was working on the start-stop-daemon problem. It needs a fair amount
of work for --exec to work on freebsd. Mostly, I've had problems with
starting the system up. (Daemons not started because start-stop-daemon
thinks their already running.)

	---Nathan