Re: linux-kernel-digest V1 #103
Marek Michalkiewicz (marekm@i17linuxb.ists.pwr.wroc.pl)
Thu, 6 Jul 1995 13:35:58 +0200 (MET DST)
Mike Jagdis:
>
> > > Anyway, the problem is that people can't change their terminal
> > > settings without recompiling the kernel. There should be a
> > > configuration file, like /etc/initenv to specify initial settings,
> > > like PATH, ARCH, TERM and so on. Most systems except linux are
> > > doing just that.
>
> It's /etc/initscript. My init uses it. But then I haven't put together
> a new bootsys release for *years* since all the distributors seem to
> like to make users edit boot up scripts :-). Maybe it's time again?
Current versions of sysvinit have support for /etc/initscript (added in
version 2.54). But slackware still uses init-2.4 :-(
Marek