Information about the package, initscripts, which is shipped with common Linux distributions. The initscripts package is designed for, The inittab file and the /etc/init.d scripts.
Package Name:
initscripts
Summary:
The inittab file and the /etc/init.d scripts
Description:
The initscripts package contains the basic system scripts used to boot your Red Hat or Fedora system, change runlevels, and shut the system down cleanly. Initscripts also contains the scripts that activate and deactivate most network interfaces.
Architecture:
x86_64
Version:
9.03.58
Release:
1.el6.centos.2
Size:
5.5 M
Repository:
installed
From Repository:
updates
Licence:
GPLv2 and GPLv2+
Control the initscripts package with the following handy commands outlined below.
yum install initscripts
This command will install initscripts on the server.
yum remove initscripts
This command will un-install initscripts on the server. When you run this command, you will be asked if you are sure that you want to remove initscripts, so you have to manually confirm that you want to do this.
yum -y remove initscripts
This command will un-install initscripts on the server. When you run this command with th e -y flag, you will not be prompted to check that you are sure you want to remove the package - so be sure you absolutely want to remove initscripts when using the -y flag.
yum update initscripts
This command will update initscripts to the latest version. When you run this command, you will be asked if you are sure that you want to remove initscripts, so you have to manually confirm that you want to do this.
yum -y update initscripts
This command will update initscripts to the latest version. When you run this command with the -y flag, you will not be prompted to check that you are sure you want to remove the package - so be sure you absolutely want to remove initscripts when using the -y flag.
yum info initscripts
This command will show you core information about the initscripts package.
yum deplist initscripts
This command will show you the dependencies for initscripts. Thankfully, when using Yum, if dependencies are required, these are also installed at the same time so you don't have to worry too much about that.
yum check-update initscripts
This command will check if there is an update waiting on initscripts. When you run this command this will return nothing if there is nothing to update, or, will return the package name if the package is due to be updated.