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Re: Some ideas about the Debian Runlevel System



Lars Wirzenius <liw@iki.fi> writes:
> to, 30-01-2003 kello 23:39, Michael Stone kirjoitti:
>> It's not about turning them on and off all the time, it's about choosing
>> at boot time what services will be running when the boot sequence
>> completes.
>
> You don't need more than one runlevel for that.

I discover that my laptop fails to boot if pcmcia-cs starts at boot
time.  I want to debug further, but still have something mostly
functional.  So I delete /etc/rc3.d/S20pcmcia, and add an option in
GRUB to have my system boot without PCMCIA support at runlevel 3.

It seems like having multiple runlevels, or some other scheme to be
able to selectively disable services from the boot prompt, is
essential in whatever init scheme we wind up with.

-- 
David Maze         dmaze@debian.org      http://people.debian.org/~dmaze/
"Theoretical politics is interesting.  Politicking should be illegal."
	-- Abra Mitchell



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