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- <sect1 id="ch-system-sysvinit" role="wrap">
- <?dbhtml filename="sysvinit.html"?>
- <sect1info condition="script">
- <productname>sysvinit</productname>
- <productnumber>&sysvinit-version;</productnumber>
- <address>&sysvinit-url;</address>
- </sect1info>
- <title>Sysvinit-&sysvinit-version;</title>
- <indexterm zone="ch-system-sysvinit">
- <primary sortas="a-Sysvinit">Sysvinit</primary>
- </indexterm>
- <sect2 role="package">
- <title/>
- <para>The Sysvinit package contains programs for controlling the startup,
- running, and shutdown of the system.</para>
- <segmentedlist>
- <segtitle>&buildtime;</segtitle>
- <segtitle>&diskspace;</segtitle>
- <seglistitem>
- <seg>&sysvinit-ch6-sbu;</seg>
- <seg>&sysvinit-ch6-du;</seg>
- </seglistitem>
- </segmentedlist>
- </sect2>
- <sect2 role="installation">
- <title>Installation of Sysvinit</title>
- <para>When run-levels are changed (for example, when halting the
- system), <command>init</command> sends termination signals to those
- processes that <command>init</command> itself started and that should
- not be running in the new run-level. While doing this,
- <command>init</command> outputs messages like <quote>Sending processes
- the TERM signal</quote> which seem to imply that it is sending these
- signals to all currently running processes. To avoid this
- misinterpretation, modify the source so that these messages read like
- <quote>Sending processes configured via /etc/inittab the TERM signal</quote>
- instead:</para>
- <screen><userinput remap="pre">sed -i 's@Sending processes@& configured via /etc/inittab@g' src/init.c</userinput></screen>
- <para>Maintained versions of the <command>wall</command> and
- <command>mountpoint</command> programs were
- installed earlier by Util-linux. Suppress the installation of Sysvinit's
- versions of these programs and their man pages:</para>
- <screen><userinput remap="make">sed -i -e 's/utmpdump wall/utmpdump/' \
- -e '/= mountpoint/d' \
- -e 's/mountpoint.1 wall.1//' src/Makefile</userinput></screen>
- <para>Compile the package:</para>
- <screen><userinput remap="make">make -C src</userinput></screen>
- <para>This package does not come with a test suite.</para>
- <para>Install the package:</para>
- <screen><userinput remap="install">make -C src install</userinput></screen>
- </sect2>
- <sect2 id="contents-sysvinit" role="content">
- <title>Contents of Sysvinit</title>
- <segmentedlist>
- <segtitle>Installed programs</segtitle>
- <seglistitem>
- <seg>bootlogd, fstab-decode, halt, init, killall5, last,
- lastb (link to last), mesg, pidof (link to killall5),
- poweroff (link to halt), reboot (link to halt), runlevel, shutdown,
- sulogin, telinit (link to init), and utmpdump</seg>
- </seglistitem>
- </segmentedlist>
- <variablelist>
- <bridgehead renderas="sect3">Short Descriptions</bridgehead>
- <?dbfo list-presentation="list"?>
- <?dbhtml list-presentation="table"?>
- <varlistentry id="bootlogd">
- <term><command>bootlogd</command></term>
- <listitem>
- <para>Logs boot messages to a log file</para>
- <indexterm zone="ch-system-sysvinit bootlogd">
- <primary sortas="b-bootlogd">bootlogd</primary>
- </indexterm>
- </listitem>
- </varlistentry>
- <varlistentry id="fstab-decode">
- <term><command>fstab-decode</command></term>
- <listitem>
- <para>Run a command with fstab-encoded arguments</para>
- <indexterm zone="ch-system-sysvinit fstab-decode">
- <primary sortas="b-fstab-decode">fstab-decode</primary>
- </indexterm>
- </listitem>
- </varlistentry>
- <varlistentry id="halt">
- <term><command>halt</command></term>
- <listitem>
- <para>Normally invokes <command>shutdown</command> with the
- <parameter>-h</parameter> option, except when already in run-level 0,
- then it tells the kernel to halt the system; it notes in the
- file <filename>/var/log/wtmp</filename> that the system is being
- brought down</para>
- <indexterm zone="ch-system-sysvinit halt">
- <primary sortas="b-halt">halt</primary>
- </indexterm>
- </listitem>
- </varlistentry>
- <varlistentry id="init">
- <term><command>init</command></term>
- <listitem>
- <para>The first process to be started when the kernel has initialized
- the hardware which takes over the boot process and starts all the
- proceses it is instructed to</para>
- <indexterm zone="ch-system-sysvinit init">
- <primary sortas="b-init">init</primary>
- </indexterm>
- </listitem>
- </varlistentry>
- <varlistentry id="killall5">
- <term><command>killall5</command></term>
- <listitem>
- <para>Sends a signal to all processes, except the processes in its own
- session so it will not kill the shell running the script that called
- it</para>
- <indexterm zone="ch-system-sysvinit killall5">
- <primary sortas="b-killall5">killall5</primary>
- </indexterm>
- </listitem>
- </varlistentry>
- <varlistentry id="last">
- <term><command>last</command></term>
- <listitem>
- <para>Shows which users last logged in (and out), searching back
- through the <filename>/var/log/wtmp</filename> file; it also shows
- system boots, shutdowns, and run-level changes</para>
- <indexterm zone="ch-system-sysvinit last">
- <primary sortas="b-last">last</primary>
- </indexterm>
- </listitem>
- </varlistentry>
- <varlistentry id="lastb">
- <term><command>lastb</command></term>
- <listitem>
- <para>Shows the failed login attempts, as logged in
- <filename>/var/log/btmp</filename></para>
- <indexterm zone="ch-system-sysvinit lastb">
- <primary sortas="b-lastb">lastb</primary>
- </indexterm>
- </listitem>
- </varlistentry>
- <varlistentry id="mesg">
- <term><command>mesg</command></term>
- <listitem>
- <para>Controls whether other users can send messages to the current
- user's terminal</para>
- <indexterm zone="ch-system-sysvinit mesg">
- <primary sortas="b-mesg">mesg</primary>
- </indexterm>
- </listitem>
- </varlistentry>
- <varlistentry id="pidof">
- <term><command>pidof</command></term>
- <listitem>
- <para>Reports the PIDs of the given programs</para>
- <indexterm zone="ch-system-sysvinit pidof">
- <primary sortas="b-pidof">pidof</primary>
- </indexterm>
- </listitem>
- </varlistentry>
- <varlistentry id="poweroff">
- <term><command>poweroff</command></term>
- <listitem>
- <para>Tells the kernel to halt the system and switch off the computer
- (see <command>halt</command>)</para>
- <indexterm zone="ch-system-sysvinit poweroff">
- <primary sortas="b-poweroff">poweroff</primary>
- </indexterm>
- </listitem>
- </varlistentry>
- <varlistentry id="reboot">
- <term><command>reboot</command></term>
- <listitem>
- <para>Tells the kernel to reboot the system (see
- <command>halt</command>)</para>
- <indexterm zone="ch-system-sysvinit reboot">
- <primary sortas="b-reboot">reboot</primary>
- </indexterm>
- </listitem>
- </varlistentry>
- <varlistentry id="runlevel">
- <term><command>runlevel</command></term>
- <listitem>
- <para>Reports the previous and the current run-level, as noted in the
- last run-level record in <filename>/var/run/utmp</filename></para>
- <indexterm zone="ch-system-sysvinit runlevel">
- <primary sortas="b-runlevel">runlevel</primary>
- </indexterm>
- </listitem>
- </varlistentry>
- <varlistentry id="shutdown">
- <term><command>shutdown</command></term>
- <listitem>
- <para>Brings the system down in a secure way, signaling all processes
- and notifying all logged-in users</para>
- <indexterm zone="ch-system-sysvinit shutdown">
- <primary sortas="b-shutdown">shutdown</primary>
- </indexterm>
- </listitem>
- </varlistentry>
- <varlistentry id="sulogin">
- <term><command>sulogin</command></term>
- <listitem>
- <para>Allows <systemitem class="username">root</systemitem> to log in;
- it is normally invoked by <command>init</command> when the system goes
- into single user mode</para>
- <indexterm zone="ch-system-sysvinit sulogin">
- <primary sortas="b-sulogin">sulogin</primary>
- </indexterm>
- </listitem>
- </varlistentry>
- <varlistentry id="telinit">
- <term><command>telinit</command></term>
- <listitem>
- <para>Tells <command>init</command> which run-level to change to</para>
- <indexterm zone="ch-system-sysvinit telinit">
- <primary sortas="b-telinit">telinit</primary>
- </indexterm>
- </listitem>
- </varlistentry>
- <varlistentry id="utmpdump">
- <term><command>utmpdump</command></term>
- <listitem>
- <para>Displays the content of the given login file in a more
- user-friendly format</para>
- <indexterm zone="ch-system-sysvinit utmpdump">
- <primary sortas="b-utmpdump">utmpdump</primary>
- </indexterm>
- </listitem>
- </varlistentry>
- </variablelist>
- </sect2>
- </sect1>
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