Hello, Here are a couple of features I miss from IRIX, I suspect that I've allready posted the first but never got a response:
1. Instead of having to edit scripts under /etc/init.d to change lines like: run_diald=1 and suchlike, I'd rather like to have a command to turn features off and on, like IRIX' chkconfig(8). The idea is that the init scripts use this command to check simple text files that contain "off" or "on" for each feature and act accordingly. e.g. you can have a file named /etc/config.d/x11 saying "on" and a file named /etc/config.d/nfs saying "off". The corresponding scripts under /etc/init.d will have lines like: if [ chkconfig x11 ]; do ... There is allready such a utility for Linux writen by a friend of mine, and it should be extremly easy to implement it in Perl as well. 2. I also miss the "autologin" feature from IRIX. This feature (enabled by "autologin on", btw) tells whichever scripts that starts X11 to start, right after boot only, as if a certain named user (name given in the /etc/autologin file) has logged in through XDM. When the user logs out then XDM comes into action and puts the standard "login" screen. This way you can let your computer login to your account automatically after boot, which is what most Linux users do on their homes machines, isn't it? Well, what do you think? I'm willing to implement both if I get an appruval from the decision maker among the Debian community. Cheers, --Amos --Amos Shapira | "Of course Australia was marked for 133 Shlomo Ben-Yosef st. | glory, for its people had been chosen Jerusalem 93 805 | by the finest judges in England." ISRAEL [EMAIL PROTECTED] | -- Anonymous -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
