[Marco d'Itri] >> S02module-init-tools >> S02modutils > These are supposed to be run with a rw root (I do not mind removing the > depmod call on principle, but I fear some people depend on it).
Ah, right. I'll add checkroot as a dependency for these then. Thank you for the heads up. >> Next, I realise that ntpdate and portmap do not really need to run in >> rcS.d/. Moving them both to rc2.d and running insserv -v again, it is > portmap does, if /usr or /var are NFS-mounted. Why? NFS mounting should work without portmap enabled on the local machine, right? nfs-common is started later with the stat and lock daemons, so these do not need portmap. > And if somebody cares enough to run ntpdate on boot then probably > they want to run it as early as possible (and it has to be slow, by > design). Perhaps. I didn't quite make up my mind here. On one hand I would not really want ntpdate to run before I get the shell in single user mode (when I need singleuser, I do not want to wait any more than I have to), and on the other it is nice to have a correct clock as soon as possible. > Indeed, hotplug does. Hotplug didn't load any of these modules on the machines in question, even though it does have an IDE CD-ROM and a PS/2 mouse. Should it? > Another possible optimization is to control the fixed network > interfaces with hotplug too, but this may require some bits of > infrastructure which are not yet in the package. Do you have more info on this one? I do not understand your suggestion. > Interesting work, but of limited use: modern systems do/will not work > this way anymore. Your initial comment almost made me disregard your entire message. The stable release of Debian work this way, so I find the testing results quite relevant and not really of limited use. Your comment tells me that you consider Debian/sarge not to be a modern system, and to put it simple, I do not agree. I'm not sure if this was the intention, but thought it best to let you know what effect your statements had on this reader. Oh, well. I decided to keep reading, and ignore the most extreme comments and focus on the ones I find productive. _______________________________________________ initscripts-ng-devel mailing list [email protected] http://lists.alioth.debian.org/mailman/listinfo/initscripts-ng-devel
