I haven't had any problems either and I use rc-update so I guess I've gotten used to the way Gentoo does it and can live with it. Still, part of me would like it to be more "standard". However, the rc-update works very well so far.
Roger Oberholtzer wrote: > When you install a script from an emerged package, use the rc-update > command to do so. It causes the computation of dependencies and makes sure > the script might complete. If you just copy a script to boot or wherever, > I am not sure that the dependencies will be calculated when the system > boots. Anyway, I use the rc-update command and have never had a problem. > > > > > On Sun, 07 Sep 2003 21:01:32 -0400 > "Brett I. Holcomb" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> The local.start and local.stop are the last and first respectively run by >> the system when it starts up. I found the Gentoo startup order a little >> disconcerting, too. I guess we'll get used to it <G>. >> >> >> >> Jerry McBride wrote: >> >> > On Sunday 07 September 2003 06:44 pm, Marianne Taylor wrote: >> >> Then howcome it was running iptables before network? Just by renaming >> >> iptables to p-iptables I was able to get it running? >> >> >> > >> > If you don't use the dependency mechanism, then the rc scripts are >> > executed based on alphabetical order. It really sucks too. Personally, >> > I think this porion of gentoo should be overhauled and re-written to >> > work something along the lines of good old fashioned system V startup >> > scripts as implemented in Open Linux... > > -- Brett I. Holcomb [EMAIL PROTECTED] AKA Grunt <>< Registered Linux User #188143 Remove R777 to email _______________________________________________ Linux-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe/Suspend/Etc -> http://www.linux-sxs.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-users
