udev init

udev init

[Peter Christy]

I've just been trying to install udev, as I was having naming consistency 
problems with devfs, and udev holds the tantalising promise of sorting this.

Unfortunately, udev-011 seems to be built for systems using SysV style init 
scripts. I'm running Slackware, which uses BSD style init.

"make install" seems to have created an etc/init.d directory containing the 
startup script (?), which presumably I can rename and install in the correct 
place (/etc/rc.d/rc.udev) for Slackware. However, it seems to refer to an /
etc/rc.d/initd/functions script, which doesn't exist in Slackware. Since I 
don't have it, I can't figure out what its meant to be doing to work around 
it.

Sorry if this question has been asked before, but Google has drawn a blank, 
and I don't know where to go next. Any pointers would be appreciated!

-- 
Pete
christy@attglobal.net



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Re: udev init

[Panagiotis Issaris]

Hi,


> I've just been trying to install udev, as I was having naming
> consistency 
> problems with devfs, and udev holds the tantalising promise of sorting
> this.
> 
> Unfortunately, udev-011 seems to be built for systems using SysV
> style init 
> scripts. I'm running Slackware, which uses BSD style init.
> 
> "make install" seems to have created an etc/init.d directory
> containing the 
> startup script (?), which presumably I can rename and install in
> the correct 
> place (/etc/rc.d/rc.udev) for Slackware. However, it seems to
> refer to an /
> etc/rc.d/initd/functions script, which doesn't exist in
> Slackware. Since I 
> don't have it, I can't figure out what its meant to be doing
> to work around 
> it.
/etc/rc.d/init.d/functions is a RedHat specific script. You can comment
out the line refering to it, and replace the:
action "string" /bin/true
by
echo "string"

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Re: udev init

[Greg KH]

On Fri, Jan 02, 2004 at 11:00:00AM +0000, Peter Christy wrote:
> I've just been trying to install udev, as I was having naming consistency 
> problems with devfs, and udev holds the tantalising promise of sorting this.
> 
> Unfortunately, udev-011 seems to be built for systems using SysV style init 
> scripts. I'm running Slackware, which uses BSD style init.

Yes, the udev tarball contains a Red Hat specific init script.  If you
aren't useing Red Hat, then this script will probably not work for you,
sorry.

I have included a Linux From Scratch init script in the tarball, as
someone using that distro provided it.  If anyone has any other distro
specific init script that works for udev, feel free to send it to me and
I'll include it in the tree (I know lots of Debian users are also
running into this problem.)

thanks,

greg k-h


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Re: udev init

[Marco d'Itri]

On Jan 02, Greg KH <greg@kroah.com> wrote:

 >I'll include it in the tree (I know lots of Debian users are also
 >running into this problem.)
Debian users are supposed to use the debian package, which comes with
its own init script.

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Re: udev init

[Dave Dodge]

On Fri, 2 Jan 2004, Peter Christy wrote:
> Unfortunately, udev-011 seems to be built for systems using SysV style init
> scripts. I'm running Slackware, which uses BSD style init.

Just FYI, Slackware sort of supports SysV init scripts if you just go
ahead and create the directories (for example /etc/rc.d/rc3.d/) and
put scripts in them. See the comments in /etc/rc.d/rc.sysvinit for
details.

Note that I'm checking this on a Slackware 8.x system here, so YMMV. I
haven't yet tried putting udev on such a system.

                                                  -Dave Dodge



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