This is the Debian GNU/Linux prepackaged version of System V Init.

Init was written by Miquel van Smoorenburg <[email protected]>.

This package was first put together by Bruce Perens <[email protected]>
from pre-distribution sources. Ian Murdock <[email protected]>
integrated it into the base system maintained it until the end of 1995.
Miquel van Smoorenburg <[email protected]> implemented Debian support.
In version 2.85 the package was split into three (sysvinit, sysv-rc,
and initscripts) in order to make room for alternative rc mechanisms.

The upstream source is available at:

Primary-Site: ftp.cistron.nl /pub/people/miquels/software
92K sysvinit-2.86.tar.gz
Alternate-Site: sunsite.unc.edu /pub/Linux/system/daemons/init
92K sysvinit-2.86.tar.gz

The sysvinit package in Debian is maintained as an alioth project.
The project page is http://alioth.debian.org/projects/pkg-sysvinit/.

Copyright 1997-2005 Miquel van Smoorenburg <[email protected]> and
the members pkg-sysvinit project.

This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or
(at your option) any later version.

This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the
GNU General Public License for more details.

You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software
Foundation, Inc., 51 Franklin St, Fifth Floor, Boston, MA
02110-1301 USA

On Debian GNU/Linux systems, the complete text of the GNU General
Public License can be found in `/usr/share/common-licenses/GPL-2'.
Sysvinit is Copyright (C) 1991-2004 Miquel van Smoorenburg

This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or
(at your option) any later version.

This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the
GNU General Public License for more details.

You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software
Foundation, Inc., 51 Franklin St, Fifth Floor, Boston, MA 02110-1301 USA

On Debian GNU/Linux systems, the complete text of the GNU General
Public License can be found in `/usr/share/common-licenses/GPL-2'.

Send patches to [email protected]

The of the start-stop-daemon

* A rewrite of the original Debian's start-stop-daemon Perl script
* in C (faster - it is executed many times during system startup).
*
* Written by Marek Michalkiewicz <[email protected]>,
* public domain.