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Package: Sysvinit

/sbin/init - parent of all processes

Category: System / Applications
Version: 2.86-r10
Homepage: http://freshmeat.net/projects/sysvinit/
License: GPL-2
Source size: 100 kB (compressed)

Manuals

User commands

last(1)
Show listing of last logged in users
lastb(1)
Show listing of last logged in users
mesg(1)
Control write access to your terminal
mountpoint(1)
See if a directory is a mountpoint
wall(1)
Wall -- send a message to everybody's terminal.

Administration commands

bootlogd(8)
Record boot messages
change_console(8)
Change_console -- change console used by init
halt(8)
Stop the system.
init(8)
Process control initialization
killall5(8)
Killall5 -- send a signal to all processes.
pidof(8)
Pidof -- find the process ID of a running program.
poweroff(8)
Stop the system.
reboot(8)
Stop the system.
runlevel(8)
Runlevel -- find the current and previous system runlevel.
shutdown(8)
Bring the system down
sulogin(8)
Sulogin -- Single-user login
telinit(8)
Process control initialization

File formats

initscript(5)
Script that executes inittab commands.
inittab(5)
Format of the inittab file used by the sysv-compatible init