Le Tue, 07 Jun 2005 18:09:01 -0500, John Hasler a écrit : > Roberto C. Sanchez writes: >> Where, pray tell, is a newbie going to learn about [runlevels]? > > a) By having used Red Hat. > b) By reading up on Linux before trying to use it (yes, some people _do_ > that).
Those that i read back when i started talked about /etc/rc.d and such long gone things ... http://www.slackware.com/config/init.php also you may be interested in http://people.debian.org/~hmh/debconf2/ I wonder what you are talking about : improving debian or declaring what your teacher told as a standard ? My first unix teacher was fond of redhat and told us that those runlevels (5 for X etc) where the linux standard. Back then redhat was far less important in linux than now ... I have only one thing to say , try a slackware and compare the boot time to debian , then to redhat (without hotplug it kills the fun ) ... or try file-rc in debian . By the way this looks to me a moot (cosmetic ?) issue . Moving xdm init to runlevel 5 can be done in a minute just before etch release. Let's talk about hard work :) Status, logging , sanitizing the start numbers (why most package use 20 just out of luck ... this is insane ) And maybe opening new thread for each topic would help ! this thread is going nowhere mixing bts versioning, init policy , etc :( Development in debian init have stalled , though i don't know why (bugs fixing, real life ?) ... but there were great talks which should be taken in account before proceeding. By the way ther are already dependency based init in debian ... Regards Alban -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
