On Tue, Aug 14, 2012 at 11:04 PM, Tom Gundersen <teg@xxxxxxx> wrote: > On Tue, Aug 14, 2012 at 11:31 PM, Jorge Almeida <jjalmeida@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> Thank you. I'm trying to understand which one-time tasks must be performed on >> initialization, and how. I have no problem with current defaults, but > understanding, then most can be ignored. Note that booting with > init=/bin/bash works just fine, so that's how I would start in order > to understand the how things work (and then try doing whatever > rc.sysinit does manually). I already have a more precise idea of what I need (s6 for process 1, zombie reaping and service supervising, etc), but I lack more detailed knowledge about the one-time initialization tasks. Of course, personalized init scripts can be much simpler than the init scripts of a distribution, which must take into account all kinds of possible scenarios. > > The commit that Matthew pointed to is the right one as far as I remember. > Yes, that's it. Thanks, everyone. J.