initscripts
This repository contains source code for legacy System V initscripts, which are primarily used in Linux distributions like e.g.:
- Fedora
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux
- CentOS
- and some others as well...
Since most of the major Linux distributions have already switched to systemd, the initscripts concept is quite outdated nowadays. As a result, this repository provides primarily only the support for other initscripts that might still exist out there.
The above mentioned support includes e.g. the
/etc/rc.d/init.d/functions
or
/usr/sbin/service
files.
Another functionality this source code provides includes:
network-scripts- legacy scripts for manipulating of network devicesreadonly-root- service for configuring the read-only root supportnetconsole- service for initializing of network console logging
For the RPM based distributions
we also provide a specfile
for easier packaging.
Future of initscripts
As mentioned above, the initscripts concept is outdated nowadays, and de-facto obsolete. Most of the work on this repository is just a maintenance, and we do not plan on extending the support for initscripts in the future in any way.
We intend to convert the rest of the remaining services into systemd units, and remove them eventually if possible.
And we have also started our work on decomissioning of
network-scripts
as well. This means no new functionality will be added into them. In case you
need some you should ask for it to be implemented
in NetworkManager, if it isn't
already.
No longer active branches
Follow the steps in our wiki - how to access inactive branches - in case you need to check out old git branches for any reason.
Bugs reporting
If you find a bug, we would like to hear about it -- although we can't guarantee we will be able to fix it... The best way to report bugs differs for each distribution:
RHEL | CentOS- create a bug report in bugzilla for corresponding RHEL versionFedora | Other- create a new issue directly here on GitHub
NOTE: Bug reports created for Fedora in bugzilla usually take a lot of time to resolve. We advise to use GitHub instead.