update-metainit1

Usage

Overview

Metainit solves the problem of writing good init scripts. Instead of manually creating these important files, they are derived from a declaritive description in the metainit files in /etc/metainit. These files can be shipped with packages or created by the local administrator.

If update-metainit called without argument, it will regenerate init scripts for all the files in /etc/metainit. The generated files contain a large warning in form of a comment that they will be overridden. Modifications are preferably done in the files in /etc/metainit and made effective by running update-metainit. If needed, the administrator can prevent modified init files by removing the warning comment.

Options

--remove initname

This command will remove any generated and non-modified scripts that were created by the metainit file with the name initname.

--purge

Only usable with --remove. Will remove the generated files even if modified.