Jerry McBride said: > 3-STARTUP SCRIPTS... Yup, Gentoo is beautiful. I use it all the time, on > maybe > a dozen computers of various architecture and brand. But I really have > issue > with the manner of organizing the system startup scripts. Could we > please, > use something more granular, more static? Like the good, old fashion > SystemV > stuff that they used in Caldera Open Linux? KDE ships with a SysV editor > that > would be a PERFECT match for something like this. I'm so tired of booting > the > laptops at work and wating for the "CACHING" to complete... If nothing > else > is done, please see PROGRESS BARS above.
I like the idea of 7 run levels (including 0 and 6). Having recently "converted" from Redhat, I especially miss being able to change between run level 3 (regular multi-user) and run level 5 (gdm/xdm) for system maintenance and stuff. I often found it helpful to have the network started, yet log into a standard terminal when patching, etc. I haven't figured out how to do that in Gentoo yet. As far as managing what processes run at what run-level, I simply used chkconfig, which Redhat stole from somewhere. It simply managed init the files in the rc.x directories, much like rc-update manages files int Gentoo's 3 runlevels. Roy -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
