On Wed, May 16, 2012 at 3:40 AM, Ignas Anikevicius <anikevic...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hello everybody, > > I was wondering if the following is possible: > - Add a lot of daemons to a newly created runlevel post-default > - Switch to it after the xdm is started (or after some time) > > I want to do this, so that I do not have to wait while non-crucial > services are being started (e.g. fcron, bitlbee, ntpd to name a few). > Maybe it is possible to somehow prioritize the initscripts? > > Another related question is that I come from Arch and there I could just > give the *order* of the daemons/initscripts to start and some of them > could be started and 'in background'. Is it possible to do that with > openrc? I saw the rc_parallel option in rc.conf, but I do not know, > whether I need anything else.
Be aware that the rc_parallel option has never been really supported, and it actually doesn't appear in the /etc/rc.conf of the one machine I have access to that still uses OpenRC. You may want to try systemd, it sounds like it does (out of the box) exactly what you want to. Regards. -- Canek Peláez Valdés Posgrado en Ciencia e Ingeniería de la Computación Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México
