[ ... ] > If you want to see how its supposed to work, look at > Solaris 2.x, Irix 6.x, etc. > > I've rewritten rc to do just that somewhere, but I wound up > having to undo whatever debian does _every time I added a > package_! It became too much work, so I bagged it. > > The premise is that a run level is _clearly defined_ and > managed according to a schema. Debian just shotguns links > in everything that looks like a run control directory under > /etc (practically). A real sysr4 rc script should run all > K* scripts in a run control directory, then all S* scripts, > starting with rc1.d, incrementally up to the defined run > level. This means that having stuff in rc1.d and rc2.d is > totally redundant. Likewise for rc2.d and rc3.d, etc. > After the defined default run level is achieved, changing > run levels occurs by simply running the K* scripts in the > new run level, then the S* scripts.
I always used to think it was me who didn't get it. I customized one runlevel to run without xdm. I used this runlevel to upgrade XFree86, so that if anything screwed up, I would not have xdm continously restarting a bogus X setup. This can be very annoying and very hard to escape, I know from experience. However, after the configuration script is done, it starts xdm as if no runlevels exist (I guess it only checks /etc/X11/config). I agree fully that a proper implementation of sysvr4 would be a Good Thing. Eric Meijer -- E.L. Meijer ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) | tel. office +31 40 2472189 Eindhoven Univ. of Technology | tel. lab. +31 40 2475032 Lab. for Catalysis and Inorg. Chem. (TAK) | tel. fax +31 40 2455054 -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
