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diff --git a/bootscripts/contrib/lsb-v3/README b/bootscripts/contrib/lsb-v3/README deleted file mode 100644 index 93df70e58..000000000 --- a/bootscripts/contrib/lsb-v3/README +++ /dev/null @@ -1,96 +0,0 @@ -LSB-Bootscripts README - -The scripts contained in this directory are a complete rewrite of the -boot scripts from LFS-6.1. As is usually the case with a rewrite, there have -been many changes: - -LSB Version 4.1 Compliant Scripts - Immediately noticable are the LSB headers -in the rc.d scripts themselves. Each script contains a usable header to -allow for automating both the installation of, and determining proper -execution order for the startup scripts. These values can also be used -directly in parallel boot setups. Additionally, messages are displayed in -one single write to the screen, after exit status is determined, so that -they can be used in parallel setups. I am not sure if this was the only -barrier to auto language translation in the previous bootscripts. Further, -the messages are created from parts and only written to the screen in a -single command, so maybe no help at all WRT translated boot messages. - -AS OF 20080907, THESE SCRIPTS REQUIRE THE initd-tools PACKAGE. -Dan Nicholson has recently released an initd-tools package that contain -LSB compliant install_initd and remove_initd programs written in C. -See the INSTALL file for installation instructions. - -Path changes - The base directory for the bootscripts is now /etc. This is -mostly to conform with mainstream distros. Of course, this is still -configurable in /etc/default/rc.site. The rcsysinit.d directory has been -removed and and replaced with the shorter rcS.d. /etc/sysconfig has been -removed in favor of /etc/default. The network service scripts have been moved -to /lib/network-services and the the network configuration files to -/etc/network. Values for short, and relatively static, configuration files -(clock and network) have been included in the rc.site file directly. - -Distribution Independent - this original goal for the LFS scripts has been -stretched even further by providing both a global rc config file that -contains (generally) static values, and a new rc.site config file to allow -customization of messages as diplayed to the end user during the boot -process. The format of messages printed to the screen is adjustable -here. Other options that were available in the previous versions of the -lfs-bootscripts, and additional options such as message format and color, are -configurable by the /etc/sysconfig/rc.site file. - -Single Environment - The rc script has been rewritten completely to allow a -single source of the boot configuration per runlevel change. This config -is inherited from rc's environment as opposed to being sourced everytime a -script is run. This does result in a negledgable decrease in boot time, but -is simply better in principle. - -Boot Logging - The previous incarnation of the boot log didn't begin -recording events until the root filesystem was mounted read/write. This has -been corrected by providing the /run tempfs mount immediately after init hands -control to the rc script. The bootlog is generated on the tempfs and then -passed to the log file before login. Additionally, shutdown events are no -longer recorded in the bootlog. They were pretty much useless and it really -wasn't what I'd call a *boot* log. Boot logging is on by default and is -configurable in the /etc/default/rc.site file via the "BOOTLOG_ENAB" parameter. - -Interactive Boot - This feature has been included by default, and is a -little more polished than in previous versions. It does introduce a two -second delay in the boot process (so that you have time to press a button -to select interactive mode). This time value, and the option prompt itself, -is configurable in the /etc/default/rc.site file via the "itime" and "iprompt" -variables respectively. - -LSB Functions - The previous lfs-bootscripts sourced a functions file -located at /etc/rc.d/init.d/functions. This file has been renamed -$distro-functions to segregate it from the old. The name is configurable -by the rc.site configuration file ("DISTRO_MINI"). LSB defined functions are -used where possible througout the individual scripts, but the $distro-functions -file provides, easy to use wraper functions that start, stop, reload, -force-reload, and restart programs, evaluate the numerical LSB return values, -and print status messages to the screen and boot log. Both distro functions and -LSB functions are documented directly in the scritps located at -/etc/init.d/$distro-functions and /lib/lsb/init-functions respectively. - -Pretier - By default, successful boot messages are prefixed with a single green -astrik character, warning messages with two yellow astirks, and failures are -prefixed with three red astriks. This provides a second 'quick glance' status -when watching the boot messages fly by. Again, the prefixes are configurable -(or completely removable) in the /etc/default/rc.site file. - -ConsoleLog - The sysctl script runs much earlier in the boot process, as a -result, it negates the need for the consolelog script. Set 'kernel.printk = X' -in your /etc/sysctl.conf file for equivalent functionality. - -Complete Rewrite - That doesn't mean that code wasn't reused when possible, -so to Alexander Patrakov, Archiac, Bruce Dubbs, Bryan Kadzban, Dan Nicholson, -Gerard Beekmans, Jeremy Huntwork, Jim Gifford, Mathias Benkmans, Matthew -Burgess, Nathan Coulson, and countless other contributors: Thanks for the help -and guidance. - -Please report any bugs to lfs-dev@linuxfromscratch.org. - -Thanks. - --- DJ Lucas -dj@linuxfromscratch.org - |