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adamruss

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Registered: 2008-01-17

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rc.conf deamons array - question

i have a question about the deamon array in rc.conf, this is mine:

DAEMONS=(preload syslog-ng dbus acpid netfs alsa crond hal acpi-support fam stbd wicd gpm cups samba asusoled-clockd bluetooth transmissiond sshd)

i know there is an order for some things, i just dont know what, so my question, is my order ok? if not what do i need to switch?
thanks

Inxsible

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Registered: 2008-06-09

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Re: rc.conf deamons array - question

i have a question about the deamon array in rc.conf, this is mine:

DAEMONS=(preload syslog-ng dbus acpid netfs alsa crond hal acpi-support fam stbd wicd gpm cups samba asusoled-clockd bluetooth transmissiond sshd)

i know there is an order for some things, i just dont know what, so my question, is my order ok? if not what do i need to switch?
thanks

As long as the daemons are independent of each other, it hardly matters what order they are started in. The only thing is that the syslog-ng is used for logging...so you always want to start that before anything else so that in case there are errors in starting any daemon, they will logged and you can see them later.

I am not sure what 'preload' daemon is. Also you might want to start the unimportant ones in the background by prefixing them with an '@' sign so that your boot up would be quicker.

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peart

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Re: rc.conf deamons array - question

One more thing: hal starts the dbus daemon, so you don't really need dbus in your daemons list.

adamruss

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Registered: 2008-01-17

Posts: 143

Re: rc.conf deamons array - question

i have a question about the deamon array in rc.conf, this is mine:

DAEMONS=(preload syslog-ng dbus acpid netfs alsa crond hal acpi-support fam stbd wicd gpm cups samba asusoled-clockd bluetooth transmissiond sshd)

i know there is an order for some things, i just dont know what, so my question, is my order ok? if not what do i need to switch?
thanks

As long as the daemons are independent of each other, it hardly matters what order they are started in. The only thing is that the syslog-ng is used for logging...so you always want to start that before anything else so that in case there are errors in starting any daemon, they will logged and you can see them later.

I am not sure what 'preload' daemon is. Also you might want to start the unimportant ones in the background by prefixing them with an '@' sign so that your boot up would be quicker.

what do you mean unimportant?

whargoul

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From: Odense, Denmark

Registered: 2005-04-04

Posts: 546

Re: rc.conf deamons array - question

i have a question about the deamon array in rc.conf, this is mine:

DAEMONS=(preload syslog-ng dbus acpid netfs alsa crond hal acpi-support fam stbd wicd gpm cups samba asusoled-clockd bluetooth transmissiond sshd)

i know there is an order for some things, i just dont know what, so my question, is my order ok? if not what do i need to switch?
thanks

As long as the daemons are independent of each other, it hardly matters what order they are started in. The only thing is that the syslog-ng is used for logging...so you always want to start that before anything else so that in case there are errors in starting any daemon, they will logged and you can see them later.

I am not sure what 'preload' daemon is. Also you might want to start the unimportant ones in the background by prefixing them with an '@' sign so that your boot up would be quicker.

what do you mean unimportant?

You could bacground "alsa gpm cups samba bluetooth".

Oh, and if you don't use any network filesystems remove netfs. Don't have any cronjobs remove crond.

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adamruss

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Re: rc.conf deamons array - question

DAEMONS=(syslog-ng preload hal acpid fam stbd wicd @acpi-support @alsa @gpm @cups @samba @asusoled-clockd @bluetooth @transmissiond @sshd kdm)

better?

Tg

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Registered: 2008-04-23

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Re: rc.conf deamons array - question

^
Little off-topic here ,but what's the different between background and not ?

Garns

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Registered: 2008-05-28

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Re: rc.conf deamons array - question

^
Little off-topic here ,but what's the different between background and not ?

Starting in the Background: Your boot process doesn't wait for the daemon to start, resulting in a faster boot process. Now before you prefix all your daemons with @, remember that some daemons rely on other daemons running, so if you send such daemons to the background things could get messy .

whargoul

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Re: rc.conf deamons array - question

DAEMONS=(syslog-ng preload hal acpid fam stbd wicd @acpi-support @alsa @gpm @cups @samba @asusoled-clockd @bluetooth @transmissiond @sshd kdm)

better?

It looks perfect.

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venky80

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Re: rc.conf deamons array - question

how can you clean up the modules and daemons coz things keep changing

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Tg

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Registered: 2008-04-23

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Re: rc.conf deamons array - question

^
Little off-topic here ,but what's the different between background and not ?

Starting in the Background: Your boot process doesn't wait for the daemon to start, resulting in a faster boot process. Now before you prefix all your daemons with @, remember that some daemons rely on other daemons running, so if you send such daemons to the background things could get messy .

ah. thanks. I tried it on my arch box and booting is noticeably faster.