Thanks much! I will give this a try. -- Cheryl
May the words of my mouth and the meditation of my heart be acceptable to You, Lord, my rock and my Redeemer. (Psalm 19:14 HCSB) > On Nov 2, 2015, at 2:56 AM, Mario Lang <ml...@delysid.org> wrote: > > Cheryl Homiak <cah4...@icloud.com> writes: > >> How does one now stop brltty in debian. I have the debian package >> installed >> but I also have the latest github version installed. I can't figure >> out how to stop debian's brltty from running. Killall -9 stops it but >> it is started up again and the same thing seems to happen with tryint >> to use /etc/init.d/brltty stop. > > This looks like systemd. Try "systemctl stop brltty". > >> Secondly, now that there is no inittab I cannot figure out how to >> start brltty as early as possible. I tried using initramfs and I can't >> recall now what happened so maybe I need to try it again but it either >> didn't start it earlier or caused other complications; I will check >> into that again. But also I can't figure out how to have my github >> version of brltty start up instead if I want that and start as early >> as possible. I realize we have moved on and maybe eventually I will be >> happy with it but I knew how to use /etc/inittab and I really don't >> know how to use this new setup. > > systemd is indeed a completely new beast. THe inittab as such is gone, > as far as I know. systemd does dependency-based booting. > So you specify the actual point where BRLTTY should be run by changing > your unit file. > > This brings me to your development version. You could write a new > systemd unit file, something like brltty-github.service. > This would start your local installation. > You can then start/stop these two individually. > > You can look at /lib/systemd/system/brltty.service > for an example. Copy that to /etc/systemd/system/brltty-github.service > and adjust the file. Dont forget to call "systemctl daemon-reload". > > -- > CYa, > ⡍⠁⠗⠊⠕ > _______________________________________________ > This message was sent via the BRLTTY mailing list. > To post a message, send an e-mail to: BRLTTY@mielke.cc > For general information, go to: http://mielke.cc/mailman/listinfo/brltty _______________________________________________ This message was sent via the BRLTTY mailing list. To post a message, send an e-mail to: BRLTTY@mielke.cc For general information, go to: http://mielke.cc/mailman/listinfo/brltty
