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author | Mark Hymers <markh@linuxfromscratch.org> | 2001-07-22 19:45:10 +0000 |
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committer | Mark Hymers <markh@linuxfromscratch.org> | 2001-07-22 19:45:10 +0000 |
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diff --git a/appendixa/sysvinit-desc.xml b/appendixa/sysvinit-desc.xml index 0a58b2923..59964e9f7 100644 --- a/appendixa/sysvinit-desc.xml +++ b/appendixa/sysvinit-desc.xml @@ -1,11 +1,9 @@ <sect2> <title>Contents</title> -<para> -The Sysvinit package contains the pidof, last, lastb, mesg, utmpdump, +<para>The Sysvinit package contains the pidof, last, lastb, mesg, utmpdump, wall, halt, init, killall5, poweroff, reboot, runlevel, shutdown, -sulogin and telinit programs. -</para> +sulogin and telinit programs.</para> </sect2> @@ -13,146 +11,117 @@ sulogin and telinit programs. <sect3><title>pidof</title> -<para> -Pidof finds the process id's (pids) of the named programs and prints -those id's on standard output. -</para> +<para>Pidof finds the process id's (pids) of the named programs and prints +those id's on standard output.</para> </sect3> <sect3><title>last</title> -<para> -last searches back through the file /var/log/wtmp (or the file designated +<para>last searches back through the file /var/log/wtmp (or the file designated by the -f flag) and displays a list of all users logged in (and out) -since that file was created. -</para> +since that file was created.</para> </sect3> <sect3><title>lastb</title> -<para> -lastb is the same as last, except that by default it shows a log of the -file /var/log/btmp, which contains all the bad login attempts. - -</para> +<para>lastb is the same as last, except that by default it shows a log of the +file /var/log/btmp, which contains all the bad login attempts.</para> </sect3> <sect3><title>mesg</title> -<para> -Mesg controls the access to the users terminal by others. It's typically -used to allow or disallow other users to write to his terminal. -</para> +<para>Mesg controls the access to the users terminal by others. It's typically +used to allow or disallow other users to write to his terminal.</para> </sect3> <sect3><title>utmpdump</title> -<para> -utmpdumps prints the content of a file (usually /var/run/utmp) on -standard output in a user friendly format. -</para> +<para>utmpdumps prints the content of a file (usually /var/run/utmp) on +standard output in a user friendly format.</para> </sect3> <sect3><title>wall</title> -<para> -Wall sends a message to everybody logged in with their mesg permission -set to yes. -</para> +<para>Wall sends a message to everybody logged in with their mesg permission +set to yes.</para> </sect3> <sect3><title>halt</title> -<para> -Halt notes that the system is being brought down in the file +<para>Halt notes that the system is being brought down in the file /var/log/wtmp, and then either tells the kernel to halt, reboot or poweroff the system. If halt or reboot is called when the system is not -in runlevel 0 or 6, shutdown will be invoked instead (with the flag -h or -r). -</para> +in runlevel 0 or 6, shutdown will be invoked instead (with +the flag -h or -r).</para> </sect3> <sect3><title>init</title> -<para> -Init is the parent of all processes. Its primary role is to create +<para>Init is the parent of all processes. Its primary role is to create processes from a script stored in the file /etc/inittab. This file usually has entries which cause init to spawn gettys on each line that users can log in. It also controls autonomous processes required by any -particular system. -</para> +particular system.</para> </sect3> <sect3><title>killall5</title> -<para> -killall5 is the SystemV killall command. It sends a signal to all +<para>killall5 is the SystemV killall command. It sends a signal to all processes except the processes in its own session, so it won't kill the -shell that is running the script it was called from. -</para> +shell that is running the script it was called from.</para> </sect3> <sect3><title>poweroff</title> -<para> -poweroff is equivalent to shutdown -h -p now. It halts the computer and +<para>poweroff is equivalent to shutdown -h -p now. It halts the computer and switches off the computer (when using an APM compliant BIOS and APM is -enabled in the kernel). -</para> +enabled in the kernel).</para> </sect3> <sect3><title>reboot</title> -<para> -reboot is equivalent to shutdown -r now. It reboots the computer. -</para> +<para>reboot is equivalent to shutdown -r now. It reboots the computer.</para> </sect3> <sect3><title>runlevel</title> -<para> -Runlevel reads the system utmp file (typically /var/run/utmp) to locate +<para>Runlevel reads the system utmp file (typically /var/run/utmp) to locate the runlevel record, and then prints the previous and current system -runlevel on its standard output, separated by a single space. -</para> +runlevel on its standard output, separated by a single space.</para> </sect3> <sect3><title>shutdown</title> -<para> -shutdown brings the system down in a secure way. All logged-in users are -notified that the system is going down, and login is blocked. -</para> +<para>shutdown brings the system down in a secure way. All logged-in users are +notified that the system is going down, and login is blocked.</para> </sect3> <sect3><title>sulogin</title> -<para> -sulogin is invoked by init when the system goes into single user mode +<para>sulogin is invoked by init when the system goes into single user mode (this is done through an entry in /etc/inittab). Init also tries to -execute sulogin when it is passed the -b flag from the boot loader (eg, LILO). -</para> +execute sulogin when it is passed the -b flag from the boot loader +(eg, LILO).</para> </sect3> <sect3><title>telinit</title> -<para> -telinit sends appropriate signals to init, telling it which runlevel to -change to. -</para> +<para>telinit sends appropriate signals to init, telling it which runlevel to +change to.</para> </sect3> |