On Tuesday, July 12, 2011 12:31:07 PM Keith Roberts wrote:
On Tue, 12 Jul 2011, Lamar Owen wrote:
C6, SL6, and upstream EL6 use upstart instead of SysVInit.
OK, thanks for pointing that out Lamar. So I take it we can still choose which services we want running at boot time on C6?
Yes. But not in /etc/inittab.
The normal chkconfig interface still works with upstart, and the inittscripts are still in /etc/init.d, and symlinks are still in /etc/rcX.d, with upstart.
/etc/inittab is only used to set the default runlevel in upstart, as documented in /etc/inittab itself, at least on my RHEL 6.1 system.
But it's runlevel emulation, not classic SysV runlevels, and upstart is capable of event-driven daemon loading/unloading. The F15 and later systemd goes beyond that.