On Fri, Jun 13, 2003 at 10:57:30PM -0700, Henry House wrote: > On Fri, Jun 13, 2003 at 10:44:52PM -0700, Ryan Castellucci wrote: > > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > > Hash: SHA1 > > > > On Friday 13 June 2003 10:24 pm, Richard S. Crawford wrote: > > > I just installed Debian 3.0r1 onto my ancient (5 years old!) Gateway > > > Solo 2500 laptop computer. Now, I like having X and GNOME as options > > > for when I'm using this computer, but since the display looks pretty > > > crappy, I'd prefer to do everything via the console. What run level do > > > I set the default to on inittab so that it won't start X automatically? > > > > 3 > > This is an excellent opportunity to point out the package filerc. It replaces > the /etc/rc.* system that most folks find intimidating with an easy-to-edit > single configuration file. To quote the package description: > > This package provides an alternative mechanism to boot the system, to > shut it down and to change runlevels. The /etc/rc?.d/* links will be > converted into one single configuration file /etc/runlevel.conf > instead, which is easier to administrate than symlinks, and is also > more flexible. > > The package will automatically convert your existing symlinks into > the file method on installation, and convert the file back into > symlinks on removal. Both mechanisms are compatible through > /etc/init.d/rc, /etc/init.d/rcS, /usr/sbin/update-rc.d, and > /usr/sbin/invoke-rc.d scripts. > > Highly recommended.
Unfortunately, file-rc in testing is incompatible with sysvinit in testing. Upgrading to both out of unstable required me to use dpkg-deb to get inside sysvinit's deb to restore update-rc.d before sysvinit's installation would complete. Buyer-beware. -- I usually have a GPG digital signature included as an attachment. If you don't know what it is, either ignore it or visit www.gnupg.org My PGP key was last signed 6/10/2003 please download my key again if it is more recent than your copy. If you use GPG, *please* talk to me to sign it. The key is keyID E2B2CAD1 on pgp.mit.edu
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