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Re:Sci-Fi Interfaces: Hackers (1995) by Enginerrrd on Thursday December 14, 2023 @09:00AM (#38641372)
Ah but this was pre-systemd so you would have been screwing around trying to find whatever script was being used to lock the doors after close of business.
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Re:Sci-Fi Interfaces: Hackers (1995) by sgt on Thursday December 14, 2023 @09:28AM (#38641675)
Well it's IRIX, so you'd just create a little bourne shell script in /etc/init.d, with symlinks from e.g. /etc/rc2.d to start/kill it on the respective run levels.

This was a pretty critical system though so why not just place this particular program inside /etc/inittab ?

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Re:Sci-Fi Interfaces: Hackers (1995) by Izkata on Thursday December 14, 2023 @04:05PM (#38647235)
Before systemd:

  sudo service gates restart
...and after too, it still exists and maps to systemctl on ones that use systemd.
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