doc/Install

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   2     README for the System V style init, version 2.86
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   4 init, shutdown, halt, reboot, wall, last, mesg, runlevel,
   5 killall5, pidof, sulogin.
   6
   7 All programs, files and scripts in this package are covered by
   8 the Gnu Public License, and copyrighted by me.
   9
  10 If you are not using Debian and the debianized package,
  11 you will have to install the new init by hand. You should
  12 be able to drop the binaries into a Slackware or Redhat
  13 system, I think.
  14
  15 Here is a list of preferred directories to install the progs & manpages:
  16
  17 wall.1, last.1, mesg.1     /usr/man/man1
  18 inittab.5, initscript.5    /usr/man/man5
  19 init.8, halt.8, reboot.8,
  20 shutdown.8, powerd.8,
  21 killall5.8, pidof.8,
  22 runlevel.8, sulogin.8      /usr/man/man8
  23
  24 init                       /sbin/init
  25 inittab                    /etc/inittab
  26 initscript.sample          /etc/initscript.sample
  27 telinit                    a link (with ln(1) ) to init, either
  28                            in /bin or in /sbin.
  29 halt                       /sbin/halt
  30 reboot                     a link to /sbin/halt in the same directory
  31 killall5                   /sbin/killall5
  32 pidof                      a link to /sbin/killall5 in the same directory.
  33 runlevel                   /sbin/runlevel
  34 shutdown                   /sbin/shutdown.
  35 wall                       /usr/bin/wall
  36 mesg                       /usr/bin/mesg
  37 last                       /usr/bin/last
  38 sulogin                    /sbin/sulogin
  39 bootlogd                   /sbin/bootlogd
  40 utmpdump                   don't install, it's just a debug thingy.
  41
  42 If you already _have_ a "wall" in /bin (the SLS release had, for example)
  43 do _not_ install this wall. Chances are that the wall you are already
  44 using is linked to /bin/write. Either first _remove_ /bin/wall before
  45 installing the new one, or don't install the new one at all.
  46
  47 You might want to create a file called "/etc/shutdown.allow". Read the
  48 manual page on shutdown to find out more about this.
  49
  50 Running from a read-only file system (CDROM?):
  51 o All communication to init goes through the FIFO /dev/initctl.
  52   There should be no problem using a read-only root file system
  53   IF you use a Linux kernel > 1.3.66. Older kernels don't allow
  54   writing to a FIFO on a read-only file system.
  55
  56 Miquel van Smoorenburg <miquels@cistron.nl>