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 ...

Unfortunately, not every device is rooted and not every stock kernel supports init.d by default. This may leave many wishing for the ability to run various scripts on boot. Luckily, XDA Recognized ...

I love the Gentoo init script system. It's the first real improvement in startup scripts in Unix-land since System V! The idea is that each script in /etc/init.d/ documents the dependencies at the ...

The "systemd question" has roiled Debian multiple times over the years, but things had mostly been quiet on that front of late. The Devuan distribution is a Debian derivative that has removed systemd; ...

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 ...