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 ...

Systemd 260 delivers one of the changes that the developers have been promising for at least a few years – we reported that ...

I have a service that, during certain failure conditions, will not stop. How can I write something into the init script that will timeout (returning a 1+) ...

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 ...