source: final-system/common/sysvinit.xml @ 1e3f8a7

Last change on this file since 1e3f8a7 was 1e3f8a7, checked in by Jim Gifford <clfs@…>, 18 years ago

r3912@server (orig r1760): chris | 2006-06-09 23:52:26 -0700
Updated lists of installed programs for several packages

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1<?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1"?>
2<!DOCTYPE sect1 PUBLIC "-//OASIS//DTD DocBook XML V4.4//EN"
3  "http://www.oasis-open.org/docbook/xml/4.4/docbookx.dtd" [
4  <!ENTITY % general-entities SYSTEM "../../general.ent">
5  %general-entities;
6]>
7<sect1 id="ch-system-sysvinit" role="wrap">
8  <?dbhtml filename="sysvinit.html"?>
9
10  <title>Sysvinit-&sysvinit-version;</title>
11
12  <indexterm zone="ch-system-sysvinit">
13    <primary sortas="a-Sysvinit">Sysvinit</primary>
14  </indexterm>
15
16  <sect2 role="package">
17    <title/>
18
19    <para>The Sysvinit package contains programs for controlling the startup,
20    running, and shutdown of the system.</para>
21
22  </sect2>
23
24  <sect2 role="installation">
25    <title>Installation of Sysvinit</title>
26
27    <para os="a">When run-levels are changed (for example, when halting the
28    system), <command>init</command> sends termination signals to those
29    processes that <command>init</command> itself started and that should
30    not be running in the new run-level.  While doing this,
31    <command>init</command> outputs messages like <quote>Sending processes
32    the TERM signal</quote> which seem to imply that it is sending these
33    signals to all currently running processes. To avoid this
34    misinterpretation, modify the source so that these messages read like
35    <quote>Sending processes started by init the TERM signal</quote>
36    instead:</para>
37
38<screen os="b"><userinput>sed -i 's@Sending processes@&amp; started by init@g' \
39    src/init.c</userinput></screen>
40
41    <para os="c">Compile the package:</para>
42
43<screen os="d"><userinput>make -C src clobber
44make -C src</userinput></screen>
45
46    <para os="e">Install the package:</para>
47
48<screen os="f"><userinput>make -C src install</userinput></screen>
49
50  </sect2>
51
52  <sect2 id="conf-sysvinit" role="configuration">
53    <title>Configuring Sysvinit</title>
54
55    <indexterm zone="conf-sysvinit">
56      <primary sortas="a-Sysvinit">Sysvinit</primary>
57    <secondary>configuring</secondary></indexterm>
58
59    <indexterm zone="conf-sysvinit">
60      <primary sortas="e-/etc/inittab">/etc/inittab</primary>
61    </indexterm>
62
63    <para>Create a new file <filename>/etc/inittab</filename> by running the
64    following:</para>
65
66<screen><userinput>cat &gt; /etc/inittab &lt;&lt; "EOF"
67<literal># Begin /etc/inittab
68
69id:3:initdefault:
70
71si::sysinit:/etc/rc.d/init.d/rc sysinit
72
73l0:0:wait:/etc/rc.d/init.d/rc 0
74l1:S1:wait:/etc/rc.d/init.d/rc 1
75l2:2:wait:/etc/rc.d/init.d/rc 2
76l3:3:wait:/etc/rc.d/init.d/rc 3
77l4:4:wait:/etc/rc.d/init.d/rc 4
78l5:5:wait:/etc/rc.d/init.d/rc 5
79l6:6:wait:/etc/rc.d/init.d/rc 6
80
81ca:12345:ctrlaltdel:/sbin/shutdown -t1 -a -r now
82
83su:S016:once:/sbin/sulogin
84
851:2345:respawn:/sbin/agetty -I '\033(K' tty1 9600
862:2345:respawn:/sbin/agetty -I '\033(K' tty2 9600
873:2345:respawn:/sbin/agetty -I '\033(K' tty3 9600
884:2345:respawn:/sbin/agetty -I '\033(K' tty4 9600
895:2345:respawn:/sbin/agetty -I '\033(K' tty5 9600
906:2345:respawn:/sbin/agetty -I '\033(K' tty6 9600
91
92# End /etc/inittab</literal>
93EOF</userinput></screen>
94
95    <para>The <parameter>-I '\033(K'</parameter> option tells
96    <command>agetty</command> to send this escape sequence to the terminal
97    before doing anything else. This escape sequence switches the console
98    character set to a user-defined one, which can be modified by running
99    the <command>setfont</command> program. The <command>console</command>
100    initscript from the LFS-Bootscripts package calls the
101    <command>setfont</command> program during system startup. Sending this
102    escape sequence is necessary for people who use non-ISO 8859-1 screen
103    fonts, but it does not affect native English speakers.</para>
104
105  </sect2>
106
107  <sect2 id="contents-sysvinit" role="content">
108    <title>Contents of Sysvinit</title>
109
110    <segmentedlist>
111      <segtitle>Installed programs</segtitle>
112
113      <seglistitem>
114        <seg>bootlogd, halt, init, killall5, last, lastb (link to last), mesg,
115        mountpoint, pidof (link to killall5), poweroff (link to halt),
116        reboot (link to halt), runlevel, shutdown, sulogin,
117        telinit (link to init), utmpdump, and wall</seg>
118      </seglistitem>
119    </segmentedlist>
120
121    <variablelist>
122      <bridgehead renderas="sect3">Short Descriptions</bridgehead>
123      <?dbfo list-presentation="list"?>
124      <?dbhtml list-presentation="table"?>
125
126      <varlistentry id="bootlogd">
127        <term><command>bootlogd</command></term>
128        <listitem>
129          <para>Logs boot messages to a log file</para>
130          <indexterm zone="ch-system-sysvinit bootlogd">
131            <primary sortas="b-bootlogd">bootlogd</primary>
132          </indexterm>
133        </listitem>
134      </varlistentry>
135
136      <varlistentry id="halt">
137        <term><command>halt</command></term>
138        <listitem>
139          <para>Normally invokes <command>shutdown</command> with the
140          <parameter>-h</parameter> option, except when already in run-level 0,
141          then it tells the kernel to halt the system; it notes in the
142          file <filename>/var/log/wtmp</filename> that the system is being
143          brought down</para>
144          <indexterm zone="ch-system-sysvinit halt">
145            <primary sortas="b-halt">halt</primary>
146          </indexterm>
147        </listitem>
148      </varlistentry>
149
150      <varlistentry id="init">
151        <term><command>init</command></term>
152        <listitem>
153          <para>The first process to be started when the kernel has initialized
154          the hardware which takes over the boot process and starts all the
155          proceses it is instructed to</para>
156          <indexterm zone="ch-system-sysvinit init">
157            <primary sortas="b-init">init</primary>
158          </indexterm>
159        </listitem>
160      </varlistentry>
161
162      <varlistentry id="killall5">
163        <term><command>killall5</command></term>
164        <listitem>
165          <para>Sends a signal to all processes, except the processes in its own
166          session so it will not kill the shell running the script that called
167          it</para>
168          <indexterm zone="ch-system-sysvinit killall5">
169            <primary sortas="b-killall5">killall5</primary>
170          </indexterm>
171        </listitem>
172      </varlistentry>
173
174      <varlistentry id="last">
175        <term><command>last</command></term>
176        <listitem>
177          <para>Shows which users last logged in (and out), searching back
178          through the <filename>/var/log/wtmp</filename> file; it also shows
179          system boots, shutdowns, and run-level changes</para>
180          <indexterm zone="ch-system-sysvinit last">
181            <primary sortas="b-last">last</primary>
182          </indexterm>
183        </listitem>
184      </varlistentry>
185
186      <varlistentry id="lastb">
187        <term><command>lastb</command></term>
188        <listitem>
189          <para>Shows the failed login attempts, as logged in
190          <filename>/var/log/btmp</filename></para>
191          <indexterm zone="ch-system-sysvinit lastb">
192            <primary sortas="b-lastb">lastb</primary>
193          </indexterm>
194        </listitem>
195      </varlistentry>
196
197      <varlistentry id="mesg">
198        <term><command>mesg</command></term>
199        <listitem>
200          <para>Controls whether other users can send messages to the current
201          user's terminal</para>
202          <indexterm zone="ch-system-sysvinit mesg">
203            <primary sortas="b-mesg">mesg</primary>
204          </indexterm>
205        </listitem>
206      </varlistentry>
207
208      <varlistentry id="mountpoint">
209        <term><command>mountpoint</command></term>
210        <listitem>
211          <para>Tells you whether or not a directory is a mount point.</para>
212          <indexterm zone="ch-system-sysvinit mountpoint">
213            <primary sortas="b-mountpoint">mountpoint</primary>
214          </indexterm>
215        </listitem>
216      </varlistentry>
217
218      <varlistentry id="pidof">
219        <term><command>pidof</command></term>
220        <listitem>
221          <para>Reports the PIDs of the given programs</para>
222          <indexterm zone="ch-system-sysvinit pidof">
223            <primary sortas="b-pidof">pidof</primary>
224          </indexterm>
225        </listitem>
226      </varlistentry>
227
228      <varlistentry id="poweroff">
229        <term><command>poweroff</command></term>
230        <listitem>
231          <para>Tells the kernel to halt the system and switch off the computer
232          (see <command>halt</command>)</para>
233          <indexterm zone="ch-system-sysvinit poweroff">
234            <primary sortas="b-poweroff">poweroff</primary>
235          </indexterm>
236        </listitem>
237      </varlistentry>
238
239      <varlistentry id="reboot">
240        <term><command>reboot</command></term>
241        <listitem>
242          <para>Tells the kernel to reboot the system (see
243          <command>halt</command>)</para>
244          <indexterm zone="ch-system-sysvinit reboot">
245            <primary sortas="b-reboot">reboot</primary>
246          </indexterm>
247        </listitem>
248      </varlistentry>
249
250      <varlistentry id="runlevel">
251        <term><command>runlevel</command></term>
252        <listitem>
253          <para>Reports the previous and the current run-level, as noted in
254          the last run-level record in <filename>/var/run/utmp</filename></para>
255          <indexterm zone="ch-system-sysvinit runlevel">
256            <primary sortas="b-runlevel">runlevel</primary>
257          </indexterm>
258        </listitem>
259      </varlistentry>
260
261      <varlistentry id="shutdown">
262        <term><command>shutdown</command></term>
263        <listitem>
264          <para>Brings the system down in a secure way, signaling all processes
265          and notifying all logged-in users</para>
266          <indexterm zone="ch-system-sysvinit shutdown">
267            <primary sortas="b-shutdown">shutdown</primary>
268          </indexterm>
269        </listitem>
270      </varlistentry>
271
272      <varlistentry id="sulogin">
273        <term><command>sulogin</command></term>
274        <listitem>
275          <para>Allows <emphasis>root</emphasis> to log in; it is normally
276          invoked by <command>init</command> when the system goes into single
277          user mode</para>
278          <indexterm zone="ch-system-sysvinit sulogin">
279            <primary sortas="b-sulogin">sulogin</primary>
280          </indexterm>
281        </listitem>
282      </varlistentry>
283
284      <varlistentry id="telinit">
285        <term><command>telinit</command></term>
286        <listitem>
287          <para>Tells <command>init</command> which run-level to change to</para>
288          <indexterm zone="ch-system-sysvinit telinit">
289            <primary sortas="b-telinit">telinit</primary>
290          </indexterm>
291        </listitem>
292      </varlistentry>
293
294      <varlistentry id="utmpdump">
295        <term><command>utmpdump</command></term>
296        <listitem>
297          <para>Displays the content of the given login file in a more
298          user-friendly format</para>
299          <indexterm zone="ch-system-sysvinit utmpdump">
300            <primary sortas="b-utmpdump">utmpdump</primary>
301          </indexterm>
302        </listitem>
303      </varlistentry>
304
305      <varlistentry id="wall">
306        <term><command>wall</command></term>
307        <listitem>
308          <para>Writes a message to all logged-in users</para>
309          <indexterm zone="ch-system-sysvinit wall">
310            <primary sortas="b-wall">wall</primary>
311          </indexterm>
312        </listitem>
313      </varlistentry>
314
315    </variablelist>
316
317  </sect2>
318
319</sect1>
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