[arch-general] Telinit?

[mick howe]

ArchLinux devs found a much more convoluted, obfuscated method of starting
the system and setting it up "read to use". Goes with unreadable logs, etc
My recollection was that telinit was a mechanism to tell init to change run
level such as change from run level 3 (to put it crudely - normal running
mode) to run level 6 (civilised, orderly shutdown and power off).
It's been many years since I cut my teeth on Red Hat 5.2.


On Sun, 16 Aug 2020 at 17:25, <u34 at net9.ml> wrote:

> David Rosenstrauch <darose at darose.net> wrote:
>
> > Anyone know what happened to the "telinit" shortcut?  It used to be
> > included in systemd-sysvcompat
> > (https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Systemd#systemd-sysvcompat) but
> > seems like it recently got removed.  Was it removed upstream?  (And if
> > so, anyone know why?)
> >
> > Thanks,
> >
> > DR
>
> What I know is:
> 1. Qouting systemd(1)
>
>        For compatibility with SysV, if the binary is called
>        as init and is not the first process on the machine
>        (PID is not 1), it will execute telinit and pass all
>        command line arguments unmodified. That means init and
>        telinit are mostly equivalent when invoked from normal
>        login sessions. See telinit(8) for more information.
>
> 2. systemd package has a telinit manual page.
>
> I can only speculate about the answers to your other questions.
>