From bdc08c1c6419be50edb433c4425481bdabf8a5ea Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Mark Hymers Date: Wed, 6 Feb 2002 23:15:46 +0000 Subject: [Bug 190] reorganise and sync descriptions git-svn-id: http://svn.linuxfromscratch.org/LFS/trunk/BOOK@1549 4aa44e1e-78dd-0310-a6d2-fbcd4c07a689 --- appendixa/sysvinit-desc.xml | 88 ++++++++++++++++++++++----------------------- 1 file changed, 44 insertions(+), 44 deletions(-) (limited to 'appendixa/sysvinit-desc.xml') diff --git a/appendixa/sysvinit-desc.xml b/appendixa/sysvinit-desc.xml index aa52e91fa..be790189d 100644 --- a/appendixa/sysvinit-desc.xml +++ b/appendixa/sysvinit-desc.xml @@ -1,86 +1,86 @@ - -Contents +Contents of sysvinit-&sysvinit-contversion; -The Sysvinit package contains the halt, init, killall5, last, -lastb, mesg, pidof, poweroff, reboot, runlevel, shutdown, sulogin, -telinit, utmpdump, wall, +Program Files +halt, init, killall5, last, lastb (link to last), mesg, pidof +(link to killall5), poweroff (link to halt), reboot (link to halt), +runlevel, shutdown, sulogin, telinit (link to init), utmpdump and +wall - - -Description +Descriptions -halt -Halt notes that the system is being brought down in the file +halt +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). +the flag -h or -r). -init -Init is the parent of all processes. Its primary role is to create +init +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. +particular system. -killall5 +killall5 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. +shell that is running the script it was called from. - -last +last 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. +since that file was created. -lastb +lastb 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. +file /var/log/btmp, which contains all the bad login attempts. -mesg +mesg 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. +used to allow or disallow other users to write to his terminal. -pidof -Pidof finds the process id's (pids) of the named programs and prints -those id's on standard output. +pidof +pidof finds the process id's (pids) of the named programs and prints +those id's on standard output. -poweroff +poweroff 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). +enabled in the kernel). -reboot +reboot reboot is equivalent to shutdown -r now. It reboots -the computer. +the computer. -runlevel -Runlevel reads the system utmp file (typically /var/run/utmp) to locate +runlevel +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. +runlevel on its standard output, separated by a single space. -shutdown +shutdown 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. +notified that the system is going down, and login is blocked. -sulogin +sulogin 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 -(e.g., LILO). +(e.g., LILO). -telinit +telinit telinit sends appropriate signals to init, telling it which runlevel to -change to. +change to. -utmpdump +utmpdump utmpdumps prints the content of a file (usually /var/run/utmp) on -standard output in a user friendly format. +standard output in a user friendly format. + +wall +wall sends a message to everybody logged in with their mesg permission +set to yes. -wall -Wall sends a message to everybody logged in with their mesg permission -set to yes. + -- cgit v1.2.3-54-g00ecf