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    SubjectRe: New sysvinit-2.60 ??!!??
    Harevy Fishman <fishman@panix.com> wrote:
    > In <199604142133.OAA05760@redrock.lan> Kevin Buettner <kev@primenet.com> says
    [...]
    > > Just a guess.. When you tried this you were still running the old init,
    > > right? You probably need to shut it down with the old shutdown command
    > > and then when your system comes back up with the new init, you can use
    > > the new shutdown. But this is only a guess. I haven't tried it yet.
    >
    > Can you do that? I did a handinstall per the README because I have a
    > Slackware 3.0 system. When I tried to copy init over the old one, the
    > system would not allow me to do that. I had to shut down, boot up using
    > the maintenance floppies, replace init, and then reboot with the fixed
    > disk installation.

    You can't copy init to /sbin/init (Text file busy) unless you remove or
    rename /sbin/init first. You can use new shutdown and old init
    together, though; if init can't find /dev/initctl, it will use
    /etc/initrunlvl (which is used by versions prior to 2.5x).

    --
    Michael "Tired" Riepe <riepe@ifwsn4.ifw.uni-hannover.de>
    "Beware the storm that gathers here!" (The Prophet's Song)


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