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In /etc/rc.d, I have the folders rc2.d, rc3.d, and rc5.d, all of which contain symbolic links labeled K21xprint and S21xprint - owned by XOrg according to pacman. Is this stuff necessaru? And is it just me, or is the XOrg PKGBUILD designed to remove these folders, among other things?
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m... I don't have those folders, and I use xorg.
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m... I don't have those folders, and I use xorg.
likewise
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Don't have them here, either.
oz
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You know... sometimes reformatting does the job, even in linux.
I admit, it is not the way it should be done, but it gives me a complete new, clean system... for some reason I don't trust the cleaning of pacman since some programs create their conf files run time.
Geert.
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Yeah, sometimes I have to remove stuff from /etc that wasn't removed by pacman (even with -Rscn). Also, removing XOrg will usually orphan a lot of files - libICE.so.6 and the entirety of /usr/X11R6/lib/modules being particularly notable.
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Are you running X.org 6.9 as some people are after that thread? That could be why...
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Nope. I did have snapshots installed over XOrg previously, though, that could be the source.
(The symlinks are owned by the xorg package though. :? )
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doesn't the number denote which runlevel the main /etc/rc.d/rc script is aimed at ?
so instructions for runlevel 3 are in the folder rc3.d etc - unless its causing probs, maybe best to leave them in place.
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Yes, the rc?.d directories as you describe are the runlevel control scripts. This method is how it is done in Solaris, among many others. The scripts that begin with a K are run with a "stop" flag when entering that runlevel, and the ones starting S are run with a "start".
However, since arch uses one overall rc.conf file instead I'm not sure why you'd need those individual runlevel directories in arch?
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you dont need them. if you installed from source, likely they are artificts of the 'make install'. A pkgbuild for such a peice of software would require customization, most likely.
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# exorcise the SysV demons and set up environment stuff
rm -rf $startdir/pkg/etc/rc.d/rc?.d
In other words, these directories are removed from the standard Arch xorg build during packaging - this kind of behaviour is necessary when an app automatically creates a SysV-style init setup (a la Solaris, Debian, etc) instead of the BSD-style one that we use around here.
Whatever the reason for them remaining on your system, they can be removed safely - Arch doesn't touch them.
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