Re: New sysvinit-2.60 ??!!??

Steven L Baur (steve@miranova.com)
14 Apr 1996 19:54:48 -0700


>>>>> "anos" == anos <anos@neurope.ikea.com> writes:

anos> Alan K. Adamson wrote:
>>
>> Anyone installed and made this release work???
>>
>> I built it, installed it and then tried a shutdown -r -t0 now and the
>> command just came back to the prompt.... NO shutdown... What did I do
>> wrong. It is on a slackware release machine.... with latest kernel,
>> etc.
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Alan
>> ne1h@ne1h.radio.org

anos> Same here. After installing 2.6.0 on a 1.3.88 kernel, the
anos> "reboot" command resulted in run-level 6, i.e XDM starting! Had
anos> to hard-reset out from there...

anos> Any clues ?

Upgrading to a recent sysvinit will require trashing most of your
Slackware init setup files. Good riddance. The debian-etc files that
come with sysvinit work *much* better than slackware, although some
adjustment is required.

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