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4.10. initscripts

The initscripts package contains system scripts to boot your system, change runlevels, activate and deactivate most network interfaces, and shut the system down cleanly.
  • On systems with more than two encrypted block devices, anaconda has a option to provide a global passphrase. The init scripts, however, do not support this feature. When booting the system, entering each individual passphrase for all encrypted devices will be required. (BZ#464895)
  • Boot-time logging to /var/log/boot.log is not available in Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.7. (BZ#223446, BZ#210136)