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1 files changed, 14 insertions, 6 deletions
diff --git a/man7/boot.7 b/man7/boot.7 index 0b209d8746..4541b8cc8c 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), |