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Re: SysVinit vs BSDinit

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On Thu, 09 Jul 2026 15:16:25 +0000, Rich wrote:

> Marco Moock <mm@dorfdsl.de> wrote:
>> Hello!
>> 
>> The package sysvinit-scripts provides the init scripts, but they are not 
>> located in /etc/init.d, but in /etc/rc.d, like FreeBSD does.
>> 
>> Some people say Slackware provides SysVinit, some BSD-like init.
>> 
>> What are the differences here?
>> 
>> IIRC FreeBSD does not have run levels.
> 
> In addition to what Lew posted, one other big difference is that 
> traditional SYSV init script styling has the scripts linked as an ugly 
> forest of symlinks beneath /etc/rc.d/rc?.d/ directories pointing to the 
> actual scripts, with the names of the symlinks defining the order in 
> which each is executed.  Each "script" in effect being little more than 
> a small "function" in a larger program.
> 
> BSD style init has the scripts as actual scripts (i.e., multiple 
> functions inside each script file), which execute each other as they go 
> along as needed, but without the symlink forest indirection to have to 
> parse through to figure out what is, or is not, executed.

As you can tell, I've not had much experience with a true SysV init
system. I had forgot about the symlink forest; my only real experience
was on an IP04 linux-based PSTN&VoIP telephony device, which used the
SysV style symlink forest quite extensively.



-- 
Lew Pitcher
"In Skills We Trust"
Not LLM output - I'm just like this.

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SysVinit vs BSDinit Marco Moock <mm@dorfdsl.de> - 2026-07-09 15:56 +0200
  Re: SysVinit vs BSDinit Lew Pitcher <lew.pitcher@digitalfreehold.ca> - 2026-07-09 14:25 +0000
    Re: SysVinit vs BSDinit Lew Pitcher <lew.pitcher@digitalfreehold.ca> - 2026-07-09 14:27 +0000
  Re: SysVinit vs BSDinit Rich <rich@example.invalid> - 2026-07-09 15:16 +0000
    Re: SysVinit vs BSDinit Lew Pitcher <lew.pitcher@digitalfreehold.ca> - 2026-07-09 15:46 +0000
      Re: SysVinit vs BSDinit Marco Moock <mm@dorfdsl.de> - 2026-07-10 07:01 +0200
    Re: SysVinit vs BSDinit jayjwa <jayjwa@atr2.ath.cx.invalid> - 2026-07-10 13:16 -0400
      Re: SysVinit vs BSDinit Rich <rich@example.invalid> - 2026-07-11 01:22 +0000
        Re: SysVinit vs BSDinit Marco Moock <mm@dorfdsl.de> - 2026-07-11 07:26 +0200
  Re: SysVinit vs BSDinit John McCue <jmclnx@gmail.com.invalid> - 2026-07-11 15:16 +0000
    Re: SysVinit vs BSDinit Mike Small <smallm@panix.com> - 2026-07-23 13:27 -0400
      Re: SysVinit vs BSDinit John McCue <jmclnx@gmail.com.invalid> - 2026-07-23 23:36 +0000
  Re: SysVinit vs BSDinit steve g <Sgonedes1977@gmail.com> - 2026-08-06 18:45 -0400
    Re: SysVinit vs BSDinit Marco Moock <mm@dorfdsl.de> - 2026-08-07 07:16 +0200
      Re: SysVinit vs BSDinit Henrik Carlqvist <Henrik.Carlqvist@deadspam.com> - 2026-08-10 05:43 +0000
        Re: SysVinit vs BSDinit Rich <rich@example.invalid> - 2026-08-10 22:14 +0000
        Re: SysVinit vs BSDinit Mike Small <smallm@panix.com> - 2026-08-15 00:15 -0400
          Re: SysVinit vs BSDinit Henrik Carlqvist <Henrik.Carlqvist@deadspam.com> - 2026-08-16 11:06 +0000

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