Board:   [DoveNet] Unix/Linux
Subject: For you SBBS Sysops o
From:    Digital Man
Date:    Sun Jun 30, 2024 00:44

  Re: For you SBBS Sysops o
  By: Nightfox to Accession on Sat Jun 29 2024 11:01 pm

 > > You may have missed all the great years of sysvinit if you just jumped
 > > ship somewhat recently. Everything was scripted (and still is, if you
 > > choose a distro that doesn't use systemd and still uses it).
 >
 > I've used Linux tor a long time, but for other things. I dabbled woth
 > Slackeare in the mid 90s and used SuSE a bit around 2000, and worked in a
 > fully Linux environment at a job from 2003 to 2007.. I remember seeing
 > sysvinit but I don't remember if I made mudh use of it.

Your Linux system circa 2003-2007 was definitely using sysvinit to start-up, run services/daemons, etc.
https://www.computernetworkingnotes.com/linux-tutorials/differences-between-sysvinit-upstart-and-systemd.html
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