[Pkg-sysvinit-devel] [LCFC] templates://sysvinit/{sysv-rc.templates}

[Justin B Rye]

Petter Reinholdtsen wrote:
> [Justin B Rye]
>> The argument that convinced me was the one about enabling
>> concurrency.  I don't know how much it really improved my booting
>> speed (it was probably switching to dash that had the most effect),
>> but CONCURRENCY=shell got all the credit because it had the most
>> visible impact.
> 
> Good to hear.  If you like the speed of CONCURRENCY=shell, you should
> try CONCURRENCY=makefile. :) But be aware that it require close to
> perfect dependency information in the init.d scripts. :)

No detectable effect.  Presumably it's spreading the load between
the nonexistent multiple cores of my squeezebox's antique CPU.

[...]
>> By the way, did anybody ever find out why insserv is called insserv?
> 
> I have no idea. :)

Aha!  There's a clue in insserv(1)'s EXIT CODES section:

>              0    Service was successfully installed or removed
>              1    Service was not installed or removed

So it must be "INStall SERVices" - not even the most mystifying
packagename I've moaned about today ("abby", #548214).
-- 
JBR	with qualifications in linguistics, experience as a Debian
	sysadmin, and probably no clue about this particular package