On Sun, 28 Feb 2010, Tim Gibney wrote:
> I just installed PostgreSQL on Ubuntu so I can learn some SQL programming.
>
> I also want to install Mysql as well so I can try them both. After
> postgreSQL and apache I went to /etc/inetd.conf only to find it empty.
> I then remembered reading an article on www.slashdot.org about Ubuntu,
> Apple, and Sun all ditching Inetd for a more modern event driven way
> to bootstrap a modern system.
>
> Ubuntu breaks traditional Unix which uses something called upstart.
> This is quite a bit of a change for me from FreeBSD where you simply
> vi into /etc/intetd.conf and remark the daemons you do not want to
> startup. I am aware SysV Unix such as Linux instead uses rc runlevels
> and I completely forgot this.
FYI: you're confusing inetd with init. Init uses /etc/inittab for
specifying what scripts/services are running at what level. It's those
scripts that traditionally scour the rc{n}.d directories for services to
run.
--Arthur Corliss
Live Free or Die
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