Boot Style

Osiris · 2003-01-21 13:59:37

Hi,
which boot style is Arch Linux using? SysV or BSD? I would appreciate a more in depth doc of the Arch Linux boot, I've found nothing in the online docs.
Thx,
Florian

sarah31 · 2003-01-21 15:14:44

BSD. as for more docs someone else may have what you require.

Osiris · 2003-01-21 16:53:45

Is it using a real BSD? (no runlevels existing) Or a SysV Init with BSD scripts? Is it using the init programm?
If SysV with BSD Scripts:
- Is there a script which can call SysV Init Scripts in the appropiate Runlevels? Is the runlevel to change to given as a parameter to the scripts?
Is Archlinux using PAM for authentication?
thx,
Florian

apeiro · 2003-01-21 21:10:19

Arch's rc.d scripts do not support multiple runlevels, though the sysvinit program does, of course. So rc.d scripts can be hacked to behave differently for each runlevel.

The bootup process hits rc.sysinit first, then rc.multi, then rc.local. /etc/rc.d contains start/stop/restart scripts for daemons, but there are no sysV-style symlinks everywhere, since we do not support multiple runlevels.

So in short, it's not quite real BSD, since we have start/stop rc.d scripts, but it's close.

Like everything in Arch Linux, we've taken the things we like about each and kept them and threw away the rest.

Osiris · 2003-01-22 09:17:17

What is about PAM?

apeiro · 2003-01-22 19:34:36

Arch does not use PAM

MasterC · 2003-08-11 12:03:24

apeiro wrote:

Arch's rc.d scripts do not support multiple runlevels, though the sysvinit program does, of course. So rc.d scripts can be hacked to behave differently for each runlevel.
The bootup process hits rc.sysinit first, then rc.multi, then rc.local. /etc/rc.d contains start/stop/restart scripts for daemons, but there are no sysV-style symlinks everywhere, since we do not support multiple runlevels.
So in short, it's not quite real BSD, since we have start/stop rc.d scripts, but it's close.
Like everything in Arch Linux, we've taken the things we like about each and kept them and threw away the rest.

Awesome, thank you exactly what I was looking for.

I've not had to ask too many questions yet because a quick search has revealed quite a bit. Glad to see the developers taking an active part in the forums!

Cool

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