When Linux users get into arguments about init systems, the conversation usually circles back to systemd. systemd came out of a time when the Linux ecosystem was experimenting a lot, as distros ...

One of the most crucial pieces of any UNIX-like operating system is the init dæmon process. In Linux, this process is started by the kernel, and it's the first userspace process to spawn and the last ...

With the release of Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 6, Red Hat will use the new Upstart boot service, as a replacement for the old init. In this article you'll learn about the changes to this ...

The first process created inside a PID namespace gets a process ID of 1 within the namespace. This process has a similar role to the init process on traditional Linux systems. In particular, the init ...

It was an ugly fight at times. On one side you had Ubuntu favoring its Upstart program to replace the old Unix/Linux init daemon, which oversees the operating system’s start-up and shutdown processes.

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 ...