[erlang-questions] crazy thoughts: inittab and erl node

[Jim Thompson]

Toby Thain wrote:

>> If you did this, how would you configure networking, perform filesystem
>> checks, etc?
> 
> That all happens before init is started.


No, it doesn't.

Certainly some kernels can configure networking during startup, but most 
  do not, leaving the job to the various 'run levels' (really'rc' shell 
scripts), which in-turn, (typically) run shell scripts to accomplish 
these tasks.

jim@REDACTED:~$ uname -a
Linux he-colo.netgate.com 2.4.26 #3 SMP Thu Jul 15 20:01:46 PDT 2004 
i686 GNU/Linux
jim@REDACTED:~$ grep rc /etc/inittab si::sysinit:/etc/init.d/rcS
l0:0:wait:/etc/init.d/rc 0
l1:1:wait:/etc/init.d/rc 1
l2:2:wait:/etc/init.d/rc 2
l3:3:wait:/etc/init.d/rc 3
l4:4:wait:/etc/init.d/rc 4
l5:5:wait:/etc/init.d/rc 5
l6:6:wait:/etc/init.d/rc 6
jim@REDACTED:~$ egrep -ilr ifup\|ifdown /etc/rc*
/etc/rc0.d/S35networking
/etc/rc6.d/S35networking
/etc/rcS.d/S39ifupdown
/etc/rcS.d/S40networking
/etc/rcS.d/S18ifupdown-clean
jim@REDACTED:~$


... started by init.

While this was linux, freebsd (and the other BSDs) are largely the same.

 > uname -a
FreeBSD freebsd.netgate.com 6.0-RC1 FreeBSD 6.0-RC1 #0: Thu Oct 20 
00:50:53 PDT 2005 
jim@REDACTED:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC  i386
 > grep /etc/rc.d /etc/rc
files=`rcorder ${skip} /etc/rc.d/* 2>/dev/null`
 > egrep -l ifconfig\|fsck /etc/rc.d/*
/etc/rc.d/atm1
/etc/rc.d/bgfsck
/etc/rc.d/dhclient
/etc/rc.d/early.sh
/etc/rc.d/fsck
/etc/rc.d/ip6addrctl
/etc/rc.d/netif
/etc/rc.d/network_ipv6
/etc/rc.d/pflog
/etc/rc.d/pfsync
/etc/rc.d/root
/etc/rc.d/rtadvd
/etc/rc.d/sppp
 >