Re: New sysvinit-2.60 ??!!??

Harvey Fishman (fishman@panix.com)
Mon, 15 Apr 1996 11:11:21 -0400 (EDT)


In <199604142133.OAA05760@redrock.lan> Kevin Buettner <kev@primenet.com> says

> > Anyone installed and made this release work???
>
> I've built it, but am still contemplating whether to install it or not.
>
> > I built it, installed it and then tried a shutdown -r -t0 now and the
> > command just came back to the prompt.... NO shutdown... What did I do
> > wrong. It is on a slackware release machine.... with latest kernel,
> > etc.
>
> Just a guess.. When you tried this you were still running the old init,
> right? You probably need to shut it down with the old shutdown command
> and then when your system comes back up with the new init, you can use
> the new shutdown. But this is only a guess. I haven't tried it yet.

Can you do that? I did a handinstall per the README because I have a
Slackware 3.0 system. When I tried to copy init over the old one, the
system would not allow me to do that. I had to shut down, boot up using
the maintenance floppies, replace init, and then reboot with the fixed
disk installation.

Harvey

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