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Kysen
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 Posted: Mon Feb 08, 2010 6:48 pm Post subject: init.d script descriptions |
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After doing some research, I'm surprised to find no collection of information to describe what each script does in our init.d. While its pretty easy to figure out what some of this stuff does with either a google or man search and of course the stuff we installed ourselves. Still there are some in the list that elude me, and I'm sure other people.
I would like to make a list of all the scripts in /etc/init.d with descriptions of what they do, and the best run level for each one. Before I put any work into this I should ask If anyone knows if this information already exists. If not I think it would be best if we created a list that anyone can refer to. |
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Ant P.
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| Posted: Tue Feb 09, 2010 1:10 am Post subject: |
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| Code: | | for i in /etc/init.d/*; do echo $i; $i describe; echo; done |
There's a start. |
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timeBandit
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| Posted: Tue Feb 09, 2010 1:18 am Post subject: |
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| Ant_P wrote: | | Code: | | for i in /etc/init.d/*; do echo $i; $i describe; echo; done |
There's a start. |
Do not do this. Not everything in /etc/init.d is an init script, not all scripts respond sensibly to the describe argument and not all scripts are harmless when the above is run as a normal user, let alone as root. Ask me how I know, if you must. 
Please be cautious when advising people to run commands on their system. As the saying goes, more or less: Test twice, post once. 
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Ant P.
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| Posted: Tue Feb 09, 2010 1:30 am Post subject: |
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Whoa, okay! Yeah, some of that output _did_ look a bit odd when I ran it... here's a less stupid version (I hope):
| Code: | | for i in $(grep -l '#!/sbin/runscript' /etc/init.d/*); do echo $i; $i describe; done |
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Mike Hunt
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| Posted: Tue Feb 09, 2010 3:14 am Post subject: |
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How about this, seems harmless enough: | Code: | | grep ^description /etc/init.d/* | sort |
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ppurka
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| Posted: Tue Feb 09, 2010 6:13 am Post subject: |
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| Mike Hunt wrote: | How about this, seems harmless enough: | Code: | | grep ^description /etc/init.d/* | sort |
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