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Distro Recommendations
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======================
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By default Finit uses the following directories for configuration files:
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```
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/etc/
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|-- finit.d/ -- Regular (enabled) services
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| |-- lighttpd.conf
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| `- *.conf
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|-- finit.conf -- Bootstrap tasks and services
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:
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```
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To enable a service one simply drops a small configuration file in the
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`/etc/finit.d/` directory. This practice works will with systems that
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keep disabled services elsewhere, or generates them as needed from some
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other tool.
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Disitributions, however, may want a clearer separation of enabled and
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available (installed but not enabled) services. They may even want to
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customize the directories used, for brand labling or uniformity.
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To that end Finit allows for a sub-directory `/etc/finit.d/available/`
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where installed but disabled services can reside. Adding a symlink to a
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configuration in this sub-directory enables the service, but it will not
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be started.
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To change the default configuration directory and configuration file
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names the Finit `configure` script offers the following two options at
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build time:
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```sh
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./configure --with-rcsd=/etc/init.d --with-config=/etc/init.d/init.conf
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```
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The resulting directory structure is depicted below. Please notice how
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`/etc/finit.conf` now resides in the same sub-directory as a non-symlink
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`/etc/init.d/init.conf`:
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```
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/etc/
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|-- init.d/
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| |-- available/ -- Regular (disabled) services
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| | |-- httpd.conf
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| | |-- ntpd.conf
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| | `-- sshd.conf
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| |-- sshd.conf -- Symlink to available/sshd.conf
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| `- init.conf -- Bootstrap tasks and services
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:
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```
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To facilitate the task of managing configurations, be it a service,
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task, run, or other stanza, the `initctl` tool has a a few built-in
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commands:
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```
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list List all .conf in /etc/finit.d/
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enable <CONF> Enable .conf in /etc/finit.d/available/
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disable <CONF> Disable .conf in /etc/finit.d/[enabled/]
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reload Reload *.conf in /etc/finit.d/ (activates changes)
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```
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To enable a service like `sshd.conf`, above, use
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initctl enable sshd
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The `.conf` suffix is not needed, `initctl` adds it implicitly if it is
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missing. The `disable` command works in a similar fashion.
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Note, however, that `initctl` only operates on symlinks and it always
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requires the `available/` sub-directory. Any non-symlink in the parent
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directory, here `/etc/init.d/`, will be considered a system override by
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`initctl`.
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