Re: [MLUG] need info

[Mike Miller <EMAIL:PROTECTED>]

On Mon, 3 Jan 2005, Jason McIntosh wrote:

> That's why generally, for scripts and such, I create a generic startup 
> script, and put in the README file "Add this to your startup system. 
> This is the typical config on RedHat:".  Primarily because gentoo should 
> generally be users who know what they're doing, and SuSE I think is so 
> close to RedHat, startup wise, that it doesn't matter.
> 
> However, I do believe the LSB - Linux Standards Base I think it's called 
> - is working on standardizing the startup and other file locations. 
> That'd be one to consider looking at.


We had some discussion of LSB certification about two years ago:

http://www.businesswire.com/cgi-bin/f_headline.cgi?bw.012203/230220135

I have to guess that the /etc/rc.d directory and files within are not part 
of this standard.  Oh - just found this:

http://mail.freestandards.org/pipermail/lsb-discuss/2003-September/001810.html

That probably helps.  You can find more relevant stuff here:

http://www.google.com/search?q=%22%2Fetc%2Frc.d%22+site%3Afreestandards.org

I think the focus of LSB is on software compatibility - it ought to be 
easy to install a Linux program in any Linux distro.  Having common 
library locations, etc., makes that possible.  The exact startup sequence 
is mostly not important, so I guess they aren't standardizing that.

Mike
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