On Lun 1 août 2005 12:32, Andrew Haley wrote: > Nicolas Mailhot writes: > > > > On Lun 1 août 2005 06:22, John M. Gabriele wrote: > > > > > Hmm... Why didn't the rpm packager create at least a simple > > > readme saying how to stop and start this software? > > > > Because this is Red Hat administration 101 and all the system daemons > are > > managed this way (mtas, httpd servers, etc). In fact it's not even Red > Hat > > specific because this kind of initialisation script is standardised at > the > > LSB level. > > This way to start daemons comes from UNIX System V, AFAIK. That makes > in January 1983, a mere 22 years ago. Unless it was actually part of > SVR4, in which case it was 1988, a mere 17 years ago. Right. I didn't want to enter in all those persky details to make my point ;) -- Nicolas Mailhot
