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xKISAMEx

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From: USA

Registered: 2011-09-23

Posts: 26

[SOLVED] Question(s) about daemons

I'm not really sure if this is the correct forum or not, sorry in advance if it isn't.

Anywho, back on topic! This is my current daemons setup:

DAEMONS=(hwclock syslog-ng dbus network netfs crond gdm)

1. What is hwclock? I'm not even sure what it is, what it does and if it's "needed."
2. Is there a "better" order for them? Does order even matter?
3. Can I @ any of these to boot up faster?

Last edited by xKISAMEx (2011-09-25 14:31:20)

roygbiv

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Registered: 2011-05-18

Posts: 204

Re: [SOLVED] Question(s) about daemons

Here's some explanaton:
https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Daemons
https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Hwclock

Last edited by roygbiv (2011-09-25 14:11:50)

xKISAMEx

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From: USA

Registered: 2011-09-23

Posts: 26

Re: [SOLVED] Question(s) about daemons

Here's some explanaton:
https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Daemons
https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Hwclock

Thanks. I completely looked over the hwclock wiki page, sorry about that. Still not sure about the @ command but I suppose I can figure that out for myself.

bernarcher

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From: Germany

Registered: 2009-02-17

Posts: 2,281

Re: [SOLVED] Question(s) about daemons

The @ forces the daemon to start backgrounded. This means the boot process has not to wait for this daemon's start being finished before starting the next daemon in sequence. This will speed up the boot for daemons which do not depend on each other.

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