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SysV init

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- [Instructor] An initialization system is responsible for bringing up services at system startup and for controlling services during the ongoing operation of the system. The SysV Init system, often called just Init, is an initialization system that was widely used on Unix and Linux systems. The nickname SysV is short for System V, a variant of Unix, that used the script-based initialization system that became popular in other variants and in various Linux distros. While many distros have switched to using systemd as the init system, some current distros and most older ones use SysV init, so it's important to know about it. In this epidsode, we'll take a look at how init works should you come across it or choose to use a distro that relies on it. When a system boots, something needs to take over from the kernel to set up an environment that's useful for the user. Init picks up at this point and runs as process ID 1, or PID 1. That's the root process for any other processes started up…

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