On Mon, 22 Oct 2018 12:40:20 +0200, KatolaZ wrote in message <20181022104020.acw7kg5hbcnfd...@katolaz.homeunix.net>:
> On Sun, Oct 21, 2018 at 11:18:39PM +0200, Arnt Karlsen wrote: > > On Sun, 21 Oct 2018 19:07:36 +0200, Didier wrote in message > > <826ba68a-6289-d047-7e74-d970996d2...@in2p3.fr>: > > > > > Le 21/10/2018 à 19:01, Didier Kryn a écrit : > > > > I'm not an expert, but it seems to me the answer is in > > > > inittab; the following line invokes the daemon which launches > > > > all the scripts: > > > > > > > > si::sysinit:/etc/init.d/rcS > > > > > > > > > Well, there is also the following lines: > > > > > > l0:0:wait:/etc/init.d/rc 0 > > > l1:1:wait:/etc/init.d/rc 1 > > > l2:2:wait:/etc/init.d/rc 2 > > > l3:3:wait:/etc/init.d/rc 3 > > > l4:4:wait:/etc/init.d/rc 4 > > > l5:5:wait:/etc/init.d/rc 5 > > > l6:6:wait:/etc/init.d/rc 6 > > > > ..how many "runlevels" _can_ we add here? Can we name them freely? > > > > ..I'm not saying we should beat a stuffed "sysctl isolate $service" > > systemd pig, just noting we have numbers and letters and lower and > > upper cases etc and I've never seen anyone try "telinit 666" nor > > 'init Tor' nor 'init FlightGear' etc to swap box configs to do > > specific things like surf porn, investigate corruption or race quad > > copters in FlightGear online, and to "kill off everything else" > > using cpu, gpu or ram etc, automagically. > > > > sysvinit currently supports runlevels 0-6, with 0 and 6 have special, > fixed meaning. There is *currently* no way of naming a runlevel using > more than one character, due to the way the "change runlevel" > information is communicated to the init process. > > In Debian/Devuan, runlevel 1 has traditionally been assigned to > single-user mode, and runlevel 2 to multi-user mode. But there is no > written rule about that (meaning that a sysadmin can move and > configure runlevels around as she wishes). ..I thank you both for your excellent heads-up on the *current* status of sysvinit, a first step would be try utf-8 characters like 'telinit å ' etc ... :o) Aaand, I'm still not saying this is an awesomely good idea. ;o) -- ..med vennlig hilsen = with Kind Regards from Arnt Karlsen ...with a number of polar bear hunters in his ancestry... Scenarios always come in sets of three: best case, worst case, and just in case. _______________________________________________ Dng mailing list Dng@lists.dyne.org https://mailinglists.dyne.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dng
