I'm a newbie trying to write a SysV init script for ipfm in RedHat 9. Looking at all the RedHat-installed scripts for services such as httpd and sshd, it appears that RedHat has the scripts written in ...

Welcome to the sequel to this thread on USBIP. The goal: to load three drivers, launch a daemon and attach to a network server on startup; on shutdown, I need to gracefully disconnect from the network ...

Knowing what each specific run-level script does and how to manage them collectively will help increase how much assistance you can provide customers if they are having issues starting up or shutting ...

systems, even those using init, should be doing parallel startup already. In my experience the starting of exim is the slowest thing in the startup - especially if there's no network and I have to ...

Oh happy day! I got an e-mail from a reader with a shell script question that didn't appear to be homework from a programming class or anything to do with hacking passwords. The reader wrote: I am ...