Bug 1145
| Summary: | /etc/rc.d/init.d should really be /etc/init.d | ||
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| Product: | [Retired] Red Hat Linux | Reporter: | Marc MERLIN <marc_soft> |
| Component: | initscripts | Assignee: | David Lawrence <dkl> |
| Status: | CLOSED NOTABUG | QA Contact: | |
| Severity: | low | Docs Contact: | |
| Priority: | low | ||
| Version: | 5.2 | ||
| Target Milestone: | --- | ||
| Target Release: | --- | ||
| Hardware: | All | ||
| OS: | Linux | ||
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| Fixed In Version: | Doc Type: | Bug Fix | |
| Doc Text: | Story Points: | --- | |
| Clone Of: | Environment: | ||
| Last Closed: | 1999-02-13 22:03:58 UTC | Type: | --- |
| Regression: | --- | Mount Type: | --- |
| Documentation: | --- | CRM: | |
| Verified Versions: | Category: | --- | |
| oVirt Team: | --- | RHEL 7.3 requirements from Atomic Host: | |
| Cloudforms Team: | --- | Target Upstream Version: | |
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We'll look into this for a future release of Red Hat Linux. |
Gateway old bug report to bugzilla: ... and /etc/init.d/rc.[1-6]d/ should be /etc/rc.[1-6].d What more is there to say? Dan Quinland (FSSTND/FHS maintainer) told me the story on how RH ended up using /etc/rc.d/ in the first place (by misunderstanding the original FSSTND). However, RH should be FHS compliant, and as much as the change will be painful, everything has to be fixed to be in /etc/{rc?.d,init.d}. RH 6.0 could implement this and have a link from /etc/rc.d/ to /etc so that old contrib packages can keep working. Before that, however, the upgrade should move all the contrib files in /etc/rc.d/rc?.d in /etc/rc?.d Not only will this make RH more compatible with other RPM based distributions (including debian if you use alien), but also other Unices like Solaris and Irix, and I'm sure many others. I know, it's a big and painful change, but I think it's really worth it.