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Bennythen00b

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Registered: 2010-07-10

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Make daemons start after boot?

Can I make daemons start after the boot has ended? Netcfg uses about 10 seconds connecting to my wireless network, and the mounting of my windows share (trough fstab, using cifs) takes even longer. Therefore, I'd like to know if there's a way to start netcfg as a daemon and/or also mount my share after I've gotten into Arch and/or X after boot?

Can I use something like .xinitrc for this?

Last edited by Bennythen00b (2010-12-18 23:30:04)

skunktrader

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Registered: 2010-02-14

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Re: Make daemons start after boot?

Did you try prefixing the name with an @ character in the DAEMONS array to make it start in background?

ngoonee

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Re: Make daemons start after boot?

Why not just background them?

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Bennythen00b

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Registered: 2010-07-10

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Re: Make daemons start after boot?

I tried that, but my windows share won't mount then for some reason. :-/

E: To be a little more specific, I backgrounded "net-profiles" and "network". I assume this doesn't work because whatever executes fstab tries to mount the share and fails before the network has finished connecting, or are daemons queued in the background too?

Anyway, just having "network" backgrounded works rather well, and I only have to wait for my wifi to connect. Not a huge problem, but I'd prefer having it start in the background in some way.

Last edited by Bennythen00b (2010-12-19 02:44:08)

graysky

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Re: Make daemons start after boot?

I think they run in parallel when backgrounded so if one takes longer to initialize than another, I think you'll be in trouble.  Someone correct me if I'm mistaken.

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