Comment 10 for bug 6829

Message-ID: <email address hidden>
Date: Thu, 24 Jun 2004 20:04:48 +0300
From: Ognyan Kulev <email address hidden>
To: Marcus Brinkmann <email address hidden>
CC: "Alfred M. Szmidt" <email address hidden>, <email address hidden>,
 <email address hidden>
Subject: Re: reboot complains about /dev/initctl

Marcus Brinkmann wrote:
> We will need our own initscripts package or whatever anyway, so if
> calling reboot/halt from those scripts is a problem, than in our
> version of the script we can adjust it wrt command line options (-f)
> etc.

Until such own initscripts package is made, is using sysvinit our goal?
  If not, then it's better to not include halt and reboot in sysvinit
when it's build for hurd-i386. If it is, halt and reboot should be
excluded from hurd, and sysvinit's halt and reboot should assume -f in
hurd-i386 (until someone patches things). In any case, sysvinit
packages provide things like update-rc.d and runlevel, which we need
until our own initscripts is cooked.

Regards,
ogi