%general-entities; ]> Sysvinit Apply a sed which removes sulogin, mountpoint, and wall from being built and installed as they are provided by util-linux: cp -v src/Makefile{,.orig} sed -e 's/\ sulogin//;s/\ sulogin.8//' \ -e '/sulogin.*:/d' '/utmpdump/d' \ -e '/mountpoint/d' src/Makefile.orig > src/Makefile Compile the package: make -C src clobber make -C src Install the package: make -C src install Sysvinit configuring /etc/inittab Create a new file /etc/inittab by running the following: cat > /etc/inittab << "EOF" # Begin /etc/inittab id:3:initdefault: si::sysinit:/etc/rc.d/init.d/rc sysinit l0:0:wait:/etc/rc.d/init.d/rc 0 l1:S1:wait:/etc/rc.d/init.d/rc 1 l2:2:wait:/etc/rc.d/init.d/rc 2 l3:3:wait:/etc/rc.d/init.d/rc 3 l4:4:wait:/etc/rc.d/init.d/rc 4 l5:5:wait:/etc/rc.d/init.d/rc 5 l6:6:wait:/etc/rc.d/init.d/rc 6 ca:12345:ctrlaltdel:/sbin/shutdown -t1 -a -r now su:S016:once:/sbin/sulogin EOF The following command adds the standard virtual terminals to /etc/inittab. If your system only has a serial console skip the following command: cat >> /etc/inittab << "EOF" 1:2345:respawn:/sbin/agetty -I '\033(K' tty1 9600 2:2345:respawn:/sbin/agetty -I '\033(K' tty2 9600 3:2345:respawn:/sbin/agetty -I '\033(K' tty3 9600 4:2345:respawn:/sbin/agetty -I '\033(K' tty4 9600 5:2345:respawn:/sbin/agetty -I '\033(K' tty5 9600 6:2345:respawn:/sbin/agetty -I '\033(K' tty6 9600 EOF If your system has a serial console run the following command to add the entry to /etc/inittab: cat >> /etc/inittab << "EOF" c0:12345:respawn:/sbin/agetty 115200 ttyS0 vt100 EOF Finally, add the end line to /etc/inittab: cat >> /etc/inittab << "EOF" # End /etc/inittab EOF The -I '\033(K' option tells agetty to send this escape sequence to the terminal before doing anything else. This escape sequence switches the console character set to a user-defined one, which can be modified by running the setfont program. The console initscript from the CLFS-Bootscripts package calls the setfont program during system startup. Sending this escape sequence is necessary for people who use non-ISO 8859-1 screen fonts, but it does not affect native English speakers. Installed programs bootlogd, halt, init, killall5, last, lastb (link to last), mesg, pidof (link to killall5), poweroff (link to halt), reboot (link to halt), runlevel, shutdown, and telinit (link to init) Short Descriptions bootlogd Logs boot messages to a log file bootlogd halt Normally invokes shutdown with the -h option, except when already in run-level 0, then it tells the kernel to halt the system; it notes in the file /var/log/wtmp that the system is being brought down halt init The first process to be started when the kernel has initialized the hardware which takes over the boot process and starts all the proceses it is instructed to init killall5 Sends a signal to all processes, except the processes in its own session so it will not kill the shell running the script that called it killall5 last Shows which users last logged in (and out), searching back through the /var/log/wtmp file; it also shows system boots, shutdowns, and run-level changes last lastb Shows the failed login attempts, as logged in /var/log/btmp lastb mesg Controls whether other users can send messages to the current user's terminal mesg pidof Reports the PIDs of the given programs pidof poweroff Tells the kernel to halt the system and switch off the computer (see halt) poweroff reboot Tells the kernel to reboot the system (see halt) reboot runlevel Reports the previous and the current run-level, as noted in the last run-level record in /var/run/utmp runlevel shutdown Brings the system down in a secure way, signaling all processes and notifying all logged-in users shutdown telinit Tells init which run-level to change to telinit