darren kirby <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Apropos, does anyone know of any good documentation about the Gentoo
> boot process and initscripts? Looking through all of these, it is
> difficult to follow what is going on, and the initscript guide I
> linked to before is a bit terse.
My sentiments too. I wasn't even able to see where all that guff got
loaded or sourced looking thru net.lo. I'm not a programmer by no
means but have written dozens even hundreds, I suppose, of shell scripts
and perl scripts though I've had no training on either.
However I get lost write away trying to follow how it all happens.
Here is an example from /etc/init.d/gpm below. It is not apparent
where any of those variables get filled with a value. I see nothing
being sourced either. Further, what scripting language uses:
ebegin
eend
I've never seen it in sh ksh bash. The three most common scripting
languages (I think). What is it?
checkconfig() {
if [ -z "$MOUSEDEV" ] || [ -z "$MOUSE" ] ; then
eerror "You need to setup MOUSEDEV and MOUSE in /etc/conf.d/gpm first"
return 1
fi
}
start() {
checkconfig || return 1
local params=""
[ -n "$RESPONSIVENESS" ] && params="$params -r $RESPONSIVENESS"
[ -n "$REPEAT_TYPE" ] && params="$params -R$REPEAT_TYPE"
[ -n "$APPEND" ] && params="$params $APPEND "
ebegin "Starting gpm"
start-stop-daemon --start --quiet --exec /usr/sbin/gpm \
-- -m ${MOUSEDEV} -t ${MOUSE} ${params}
eend ${?}
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