On 03/11/2015 10:00 PM, Michael Witten wrote: > It's important that the reader receive contemporary information. Quite! Thanks for this. Applied. Cheers, Michael > Signed-off-by: Michael Witten <mfwitten@xxxxxxxxx> > --- > man7/boot.7 | 20 ++++++++++++++------ > 1 file changed, 14 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-) > > diff --git a/man7/boot.7 b/man7/boot.7 > index 0b209d8..4541b8c 100644 > --- a/man7/boot.7 > +++ b/man7/boot.7 > @@ -114,6 +114,15 @@ program > to which are passed the parameters that haven't already been > handled by the kernel. > .SS Root user-space process > +.TP > +Note: > +The following description applies to an OS based on UNIX System V Release 4. > +Namely, a number of widely used systems have adopted a related but > +fundamentally alternative approach known as > +.BR systemd (1), > +for which the bootup process is detailed in its associated > +.BR bootup (7). > +.LP > When > .I /sbin/init > starts, it reads > @@ -141,11 +150,8 @@ that actually start/stop the individual services. > .SS Boot scripts > .TP > Note: > -The following description applies to an OS based on UNIX System V Release 4, > -which currently covers most commercial UNIX systems (Solaris, HP-UX, Irix, > -Tru64) as well as the major Linux distributions (Red Hat, Debian, Mandriva, > -SUSE, Ubuntu). > -Some systems (Slackware Linux, FreeBSD, OpenBSD) > +The following description applies to an OS based on UNIX System V Release 4. > +Namely, a number of widely used systems (Slackware Linux, FreeBSD, OpenBSD) > have a somewhat different scheme for boot scripts. > .LP > For each managed service (mail, nfs server, cron, etc.), there is > @@ -199,7 +205,7 @@ To allow a system administrator to change these > inputs without editing an entire boot script, > some separate configuration file is used, and is located in a specific > directory where an associated boot script may find it > -(\fI/etc/sysconfig\fR on Red Hat systems). > +(\fI/etc/sysconfig\fR on older Red Hat systems). > > In older UNIX systems, such a file contained the actual command line > options for a daemon, but in modern Linux systems (and also > @@ -213,6 +219,8 @@ the variable values. > .IR /etc/rc[S0\-6].d/ , > .I /etc/sysconfig/ > .SH SEE ALSO > +.BR bootup (7) > +.BR systemd (1) > .BR inittab (5), > .BR bootparam (7), > .BR init (1), > -- Michael Kerrisk Linux man-pages maintainer; http://www.kernel.org/doc/man-pages/ Linux/UNIX System Programming Training: http://man7.org/training/ -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-man" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
