--- Ben Reser <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > The question was asked but there has yet to be a > straight answer. WHY > did we switch from inittab to a initscript?
It was me who asked, thanks for reposting my question. I was going to earlier today, but something someone said made me realize (I think) why they did it. If you start dm as a service, it can start getting started before some of the other services, and some of the other services don't really need to be done before X starts, so you can basically boot to X faster this way. With inittab, it wouldn't start launching until *all* services had started. In fact, I can now remember people asking for Mandrake to do just this. Peter Ruskin also suggested we did this to "copy someone else," so I'm wondering if RH has gone this way. I guess I'm not against them doing this, although so close to release was not smart, as its causing problems, and I hope they all get ironed out. It would have also been nice if flepied (I think he made the change) had posted a short note when he made the change explaining why. It took me a while to (I think) figure it out. __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? HotJobs - Search Thousands of New Jobs http://www.hotjobs.com
