menu "Init Utilities"
-config CONFIG_INIT
+config INIT
bool "init"
default n
+ select FEATURE_SYSLOG
help
init is the first program run when the system boots.
-config CONFIG_FEATURE_USE_INITTAB
- bool " Support reading an inittab file?"
+config DEBUG_INIT
+ bool "debugging aid"
+ default n
+ depends on INIT
+ help
+ Turn this on to disable all the dangerous
+ rebooting stuff when debugging.
+
+config FEATURE_USE_INITTAB
+ bool "Support reading an inittab file"
default y
- depends on CONFIG_INIT
+ depends on INIT
help
Allow init to read an inittab file when the system boot.
-config CONFIG_FEATURE_INITRD
- bool " Support running init from within an initrd?"
- default y
- depends on CONFIG_INIT
+config FEATURE_INIT_SCTTY
+ bool "Support running commands with a controlling-tty"
+ default n
+ depends on INIT
help
- Allow init to be called from an initrd as linuxrc.
+ If this option is enabled a command starting with hyphen (-)
+ is run in its own session (setsid(2)) and possibly with a
+ controlling tty (TIOCSCTTY). This is not the traditional init
+ behavour, but is often what you want in an embedded system where
+ the console is only accessed during development or for maintenance.
+
+config FEATURE_INIT_SYSLOG
+ bool "Enable init to write to syslog"
+ default n
+ depends on INIT
-config CONFIG_FEATURE_INIT_COREDUMPS
- bool " Support dumping core for child processes (debugging only)?"
+config FEATURE_EXTRA_QUIET
+ bool "Be _extra_ quiet on boot"
default y
- depends on CONFIG_INIT
+ depends on INIT
+ help
+ Prevent init from logging some messages to the console during boot.
+
+config FEATURE_INIT_COREDUMPS
+ bool "Support dumping core for child processes (debugging only)"
+ default n
+ depends on INIT
help
If this option is enabled and the file /.init_enable_core
exists, then init will call setrlimit() to allow unlimited
core file sizes. If this option is disabled, processes
will not generate any core files.
-config CONFIG_FEATURE_EXTRA_QUIET
- bool " Should init be _extra_ quiet on boot?"
- default y
- depends on CONFIG_INIT
- help
- Prevent init from logging some messages to the console
- during boot.
-# Some apps that are meaningless without BusyBox running as init
-config CONFIG_HALT
- bool "halt"
- default y
- depends on CONFIG_INIT
- help
- 'halt' tells the kernel to stop all processes and halt the system.
-config CONFIG_POWEROFF
- bool "poweroff"
+config FEATURE_INITRD
+ bool "Support running init from within an initrd (not initramfs)"
default y
- depends on CONFIG_INIT
+ depends on INIT
help
- Stop all processes and (try to) power off the system.
+ Legacy support for running init under the old-style initrd. Allows
+ the name linuxrc to act as init, and it doesn't assume init is PID 1.
-config CONFIG_REBOOT
- bool "reboot"
- default y
- depends on CONFIG_INIT
- help
- Stop all processes and reboot the system.
-
-config CONFIG_MINIT
- bool "minit"
- default n
- help
- Minimal init, based on minit v0.9.1. This is a simple
- init replacement that handles starting/stopping services,
- and service dependencies. See http://www.fefe.de/minit/
- for additional information.
-
-config CONFIG_PIDFILEHACK
- bool "pidfilehack"
- default y
- depends on CONFIG_MINIT
- help
- pidfilehack is used by minit to run servers.
-
-config CONFIG_MSVC
- bool "msvc"
- default y
- depends on CONFIG_MINIT
- help
- msvc is used to start and stop processes controlled by minit
+ This does not apply to initramfs, which runs /init as PID 1 and
+ requires no special support.
-# Should start-stop-daemon be moved under debianutils?
-config CONFIG_START_STOP_DAEMON
- bool "start-stop-daemon"
+config HALT
+ bool "poweroff, halt, and reboot"
default y
help
- start-stop-daemon is used to control the creation and
- termination of system-level processes, usually the ones
- started during the startup of the system.
+ Stop all processes and either halt, reboot, or power off the system.
-config CONFIG_MESG
+config MESG
bool "mesg"
default y
help
- Mesg controls the access to your terminal by others. It
- is typically used to allow or disallow other users to write
- to your terminal
+ Mesg controls access to your terminal by others. It is typically
+ used to allow or disallow other users to write to your terminal
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