Contents of Sysvinit Last checked against version &sysvinit-contversion;. The Sysvinit package contains programs to control the startup, running and shutdown of all other programs. Sysvinit installs the following: Program Files halt, init, killall5, last, lastb (link to last), mesg, pidof (link to killall5), poweroff (link to halt), reboot (link to halt), runlevel, shutdown, sulogin, telinit (link to init), utmpdump and wall