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tinkywinky

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Registered: 2008-09-22

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init

I understand arch uses bsd style init? Is sys-v style supported, or am I "forced" to use rc.local?

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Re: init

I guess not. You are stuck with rc.local.

Mr.Elendig

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Re: init

I understand arch uses bsd style init? Is sys-v style supported, or am I "forced" to use rc.local?

Explain in more details please.... Nothing is prevenring you from writing your own script in rc.d and running it from rc.conf.

If you want more runlevels, then there are some patched init scripts for that. It is also possible to use upstart in arch, if you really want to.

Last edited by Mr.Elendig (2008-09-22 19:19:47)

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tinkywinky

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Re: init

I don't have detail I've been using mac for a few years now, and time to buy a new computer is aproaching. I'm just looking for a clean distro with minimum effort for maintainence in long term. Install once, use till the machine dies. I was thinking, that tinkering with init scripts directly would lead me having to tinker with them again and again later, when they're being changed. I also may be completely wrong too.

Misfit138

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Re: init

Why would you want to use sysV init?
Why do you want or need to tinker with init scripts?
What is the significance of rc.local, whether you use BSD-style or sysV?
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wonder

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Re: init

i think he wanted to say rc.conf over rc.local

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fukawi2

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Re: init

Install once, use till the machine dies. I was thinking, that tinkering with init scripts directly would lead me having to tinker with them again and again later, when they're being changed. I also may be completely wrong too.

You won't need to 'tinker' unless you update Arch (pacman -Syu), and even then you won't have to everytime.

But then again, you never have to run pacman -Syu if you don't want to

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tinkywinky

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Registered: 2008-09-22

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Re: init

Now I really feel I was being nickpickicky ^^. Thanks fukawi, elendig, misfit and onwards.