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Diffstat (limited to 'login-utils/simpleinit.8')
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1 files changed, 11 insertions, 8 deletions
diff --git a/login-utils/simpleinit.8 b/login-utils/simpleinit.8 index f367f2f63..2c3e08b2b 100644 --- a/login-utils/simpleinit.8 +++ b/login-utils/simpleinit.8 @@ -1,7 +1,7 @@ .\" Copyright 1992, 1993 Rickard E. Faith (faith@cs.unc.edu) .\" May be distributed under the GNU General Public License .\" " for emacs's hilit19 mode :-) -.TH SIMPLEINIT 8 "4 November 2000" "Linux 0.99" "Linux Programmer's Manual" +.TH SIMPLEINIT 8 "25 February 2001" "Linux 0.99" "Linux Programmer's Manual" .SH NAME simpleinit \- process control initialization .SH SYNOPSIS @@ -97,12 +97,15 @@ parallel. See the \fBneed\fP(8) programme for details on how to elegantly control order of execution and manage dependencies. The \fBPATH\fP value is assigned to the PATH environment variable of -child processes (boot scripts). The \fBINIT_PATH\fP value is used by -simpleinit(8) itself to find the location of scripts to run (if an -absolute path is not given). If unset the default value \fBPATH\fP is -used. This separation allows boot scripts to invoke programmes of the -same name without conflict and without needing to specify absolute -paths. +child processes (boot scripts). + +The \fBINIT_PATH\fP value is used by simpleinit(8) itself to find the +location of scripts to run (if an absolute path is not given). If +unset and the boot programme is a directory, that directory is used. +Finally, if the script cannot be found in this path, the standard +\fBPATH\fP is used. This separation allows boot scripts to invoke +programmes of the same name without conflict and without needing to +specify absolute paths. The \fBfinalprog\fP value specifies the path of the programme to run after all \fBgetty\fP(8) instances are spawned. At bootup, it is @@ -151,7 +154,7 @@ remount (read-only) the root filesystem, even if the old inode for the .BR getty (8), .BR agetty (8), .BR shutdown (8), -.BR need (8) +.BR initctl (8) .SH BUGS This program is called .B simpleinit |