Patrick Leslie Polzer wrote: >Aaron Griffin wrote: >> However, why is an mplayer setting in rc.sysinit? I don't use mplayer, >> my server doesn't use mplayer - so why do they have this setting? >Same thing: why is stuff about console fonts there? >_My_ server does not have a screen! What's the difference? >Anyway, we are talking mainly about "sysctl -p" belonging there. >And that's a very flexible thing; the mplayer line >_could_ then be added to /etc/sysctl.conf (and I >advocate this, but that is out of rc.sysinit) - or not.
I agree. 'sysctl -p' belongs in rc.sysinit. Obviously some programs needs these kinds of kernel parameter settings and I'd rather not have them doing it their way on my system. At the moment mplayer believes the right way to do it is by echoing from rc.local.. /Philip _______________________________________________ arch mailing list [email protected] http://www.archlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/arch
