Dieter Ries <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> posted [EMAIL PROTECTED], excerpted below, on Fri, 05 Jan 2007 22:58:41 +0100:
> can I safely remove netmount from runlevel "default"? > and what exactly is in "local"? Yes, you should be able to remove netmount. That's for if you have any NFS or the like filesystems, which you apparently don't. local contains whatever misc. stuff you want to put in it (by adding it to /etc/conf.d/local), normally nothing, unless you've put something in it to run. As such, you should be able to safely remove it from the list, but it's not going to shorten your boot time but maybe a fraction of a second, as it's normally empty. The idea is that it gives you somewhere to put your own little scripts or whatever, so you can load them at boot without having to create an entire boot service skeleton complete with the usual service start, stop, restart, etc functions. Like I said, you can safely remove it if you've put nothing in it, but it's not going to change your bootup time noticeably at all, and it's convenient to have if you ever have something without a full bootscript you want to start, so you might just leave it there. It's up to you. -- Duncan - List replies preferred. No HTML msgs. "Every nonfree program has a lord, a master -- and if you use the program, he is your master." Richard Stallman -- [email protected] mailing list
