Re: New experimental sysvinit

2006-01-15 Thread Thomas Hood
sysvinit 2.86.ds1-10 is now in incoming. Along with udev 0.080-1 this should fix the problem (/dev/pts not mounted early enough) that kept some people from using bootlogd. Beyond that, it is the latest of a string of experimental releases. The sysvinit team is hoping that it is not too far off b

Re: New experimental sysvinit

2005-12-27 Thread Thomas Hood
> A new version of sysvinit is being prepared for release to experimental. OK, sysvinit 2.86.ds1-8 is now in incoming. TIA for testing it. ;) -- Thomas Hood -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: New experimental sysvinit

2005-12-23 Thread Linas Zvirblis
Thomas Hood wrote: And that is probably not what I would expect. What about doing something like this... NOLOGIN=boot nologin exists during boot NOLOGIN=always nologin always exists NOLOGIN=never nologin never exists That would be fine if we were adding a new feature, but I am trying to m

Re: New experimental sysvinit

2005-12-23 Thread Thomas Hood
> And that is probably not what I would expect. What about doing something > like this... > > NOLOGIN=boot nologin exists during boot > NOLOGIN=alwaysnologin always exists > NOLOGIN=never nologin never exists That would be fine if we were adding a new feature, but I am trying to modify

Re: New experimental sysvinit

2005-12-23 Thread Linas Zvirblis
Anyone see any problems with this scheme? Any better ideas? This might be a silly question, but what would happen if DELAYLOGIN=yes and /var/lib/initscripts/nologin does not exist? I surmise that it's created somewhere in runmefirst. After all, the usual state of a running system is tha

Re: New experimental sysvinit

2005-12-23 Thread Thomas Hood
Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: > How well that works with /var in a separate partition? It should work fine because S55bootmisc.sh runs after S45mountnfs.sh. -- Thomas -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: New experimental sysvinit

2005-12-23 Thread Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
On Thu, 22 Dec 2005, Thomas Hood wrote: > 2. One thing I would like to do in this release is to remove the > dynamically created/deleted /etc/nologin file from the root filesystem. > It is proposed that initscripts create and delete the nologin flag file > in /var/lib/initscripts/ and that /etc/nol

Re: New experimental sysvinit

2005-12-22 Thread Adrian von Bidder
On Friday 23 December 2005 01.40, Linas Zvirblis wrote: > Thomas Hood wrote: > > No-login mode at boot until boot complete: > > DELAYLOGIN=yes No-login mode never: rm -f /var/lib/initscripts/nologin > > ; DELAYLOGIN=no No-login mode always: touch > > /var/lib/initscripts/nologin

Re: New experimental sysvinit

2005-12-22 Thread Linas Zvirblis
Thomas Hood wrote: No-login mode at boot until boot complete: DELAYLOGIN=yes No-login mode never: rm -f /var/lib/initscripts/nologin ; DELAYLOGIN=no No-login mode always: touch /var/lib/initscripts/nologin ; DELAYLOGIN=no Anyone see any problems with this scheme? Any bet