On Friday 05 August 2005 11:03, Bob Proulx wrote: [...] >> > cp skeleton localrc >> > editor localrc # edit as you desire >> >> Ahh, that I can handle. I take it it gets sourced if it exists as >> localrc? > >It gets sourced because it has a symlink to it (created with >update-rc.d in my example) which points to it from rc2.d. I only >called it localrc here in the example. I almost called it >"mypersonallocalrc" for emphasis and perhaps should have. Or > perhaps I should have called it exactly "rc.local" as in your > previous system. The name really does not matter. I was just > typing in names fast and furiously. I should have called it > rc.local to match your previous name. > >> >In any case, there is a tool to set up the symlinks that can be >> >thought of as a chkconfig like tool. >> > >> > update-rc.d localrc defaults >> > >> > This is really a scripting interface. So normally users don't >> > need to know about the command. But it is used in packages in >> > the postinst script. And the reverse removal is 'update-rc.d >> > localrc remove'. >> >> But, what do I do it aI want to remove boinc, but not setibatch? >> Obviously we're back to hand editing. I'm capable of that. > >You have lost me. I know "setibatch" is how you are starting the > seti tools. You did not mention "boinc" previously but I will > assume it is another thing you want run at startup. Given that, I > don't understand your question at all. If you put it in then you > can take it out, right?
Well, I'm also running boinc/einstein here on this box & I thought it might be usefull to set it up on the debian box too. And, TBT, I was trolling a bit as I don't have seperate startups for them now. In fact, I got so sick of boinc taking over the machine & the boinc folks couldn't seem to understand the problem I was having. They weren't giving the clients a -nice 19, so my boinc starter file found its way into vim & that got fixed right fast after I figured it out what was hogging the machine so bad. >I am starting out with the scene you had set that you had created an >rc.local I, nor any other RH/fedora user needs to create it, its part of the basic install, even has a line in it that says put all your stuff below here please. So I did :) >on your previous system and wanted to transfer that local > rc startup to your Debian system. In that case pretty much > anything you did in the old rc.local you would do on your new > system too. If you started both of those in rc.local then you > could start both of those in one script now too. If you want to > create individual scripts one for each of those then that is fine > too. Because your comment loses me I would need more input to > suggest more. > >> Maybe a different tack needs to be taken by way of having an >> etc/local dir, and anything placed it it gets sourced at startup? >> Is something like that possible in the future? > >You can easily create this yourself. See the run-parts command for > a useful utility in this process. You could package up a generic > startup interface and submit it to the community. Others might > find that useful too. > > man run-parts I'll certainly dig into that in the next day or so. Thanks. >But pretty soon you will find that ordering is a problem. So you >would probably create a directory that contains the real scripts and > a second directory that contains symlinks to those scripts. The > name of the symlink could contain a number to force a startup > ordering independent of the underlying name. If you notice I have > just proposed that the logical conclusion of doing this is that we > would have exactly the same system that we already have with the > /etc/init.d and /etc/rc*.d directories! :-) :-) >[Of course the Gentoo folks have a different startup system with >declared dependencies and an automatic ordering that they like. And >there are parties in Debian proposing similar things too. > Personally I like the current system best. But choices are good.] They are what makes the world work. Thanks Bob. By the time you hear from that machine, it will be moved back out to the shop and hooked up to a micro-mill. I just a few minutes ago, put the final screws in the Z axis motor mount. All 3 axis's now have 280 oz/in stepper motors driving them. Should be neat once up and running. :-) >Bob -- Cheers, Gene "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) 99.35% setiathome rank, not too shabby for a WV hillbilly Yahoo.com and AOL/TW attorneys please note, additions to the above message by Gene Heskett are: Copyright 2005 by Maurice Eugene Heskett, all rights reserved. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
