init managed or rc script managed services

[Tom Buskey]

Marc Evans said:
>OK, fair enough answers. Thank you. Can I ask if your opinion changes if
>the system in use was an appliance, e.g. you as the owner don't know that
>Linux is on the inside unless you go out of your way to try to discover
>it? In other words, no sysadmin will ever see the contents of the inittab
>or rc scripts, nor be able to influance them, other then to perform a
>firmware upgrade to the appliance?

As the owner, I don't care as long as it doesn't crash.  As a service
guy debugging/upgrading the firmware on hundreds of machines, I do
care.


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Tom Buskey