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minit(8) System Manager's Manual minit(8)

NAME

minit - a UNIX process no 1

SYNOPSIS

minit
 

DESCRIPTION

minit is a possible first process the kernel starts
 
to use minit as system init, first read available documentation in /usr/share/doc/minit and then add the parameter init=/sbin/minit to your kernel command line.
 
lilo users need to add it to the append="something" option in /etc/lilo.conf,
 
grub users can just append it to their " kernel image options" lines.
 

USAGE

minit will by default do nothing except starting the minit service defined in /etc/minit/default which usually contains a file named depends specifying which services are to be started at bootup.
 

AUTHOR

minit was written by Felix von Leitner and can be downloaded from his page at http://www.fefe.de/minit/
 
This manpage was written by Erich Schubert <erich@debian.org> for the Debian GNU/Linux operating system.
 

SEE ALSO

msvc(8), pidfilehack(8)