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On Sun, 11 Mar 2001 20:10:18 -0500
Neal Lippman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> There have been a number of articles over the past year or two on the
> boot-up
> sequence used by redhat-like systems, which includes Mandrake.
>
> There are also some excellent HOWTO's on how systems boot, etc
>
Most of this I already knew - how the init scripts work. What I'm really
after is what each one does, how it is related to the others, and what
the consequences of removing them from a run level.
>
> You can organize which scripts are run at each runlevel with the
> chkconfig
> command (try man-ing it) or with graphics interfaces (I don't know their
> names, I usually use chkconfig).
>
Thanks, I wasn't aware of this command.
> Note that /etc/init.d is a symlink to /etc/rc.d/init.d.
I missed that - forgot to look for a symlink at the directory level.
>
>
> On Sunday 11 March 2001 13:59, Collins Richey wrote:
> > Some questions
> >
> > 1) Is there any documentation anywhere about the processes that
> Mandrake
> > chooses to start via the init scripts - reason for being, sequencing,
> > etc.?
> >
> > 2) What is the recommended procedure for shutting down the starting of
> > some of the processes without permanently removing them in case I want
> > them again later? On other distributions, there's usually an
> > ONBOOT=YES/No in the scripts to do this.
> >
> > 3) on Beta 8.0 there appears to be a complete duplication of scripts
> in
> > /etc/init.d and /etc/rc.d/init.d. Why?
>
Mandrake starts a tremendous variety of services, many of which I'm sure
I'll never need. What I'd like to know is which ones are really essential
for me, rather than shooting from the hip and blowing one away, only to
find that me system is crippled as a result.
Example, I don't every intend to use postfix - kmail and/or sylpheed are
all I need. But will I break something if I remove postfix from run
levels 3 and 5?
Thanks,
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Collins Richey
Denver Area
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Collins Richey
Denver Area
