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Re: /etc/init.d structure [long rant]



>>"E.L. Meijer (Eric)" wrote:
 >[ ... ]
 >
...
 >I always used to think it was me who didn't get it.  I customized one
 >runlevel to run without xdm.  I used this runlevel to upgrade XFree86,
 >so that if anything screwed up, I would not have xdm continously
 >restarting a bogus X setup.  This can be very annoying and very hard to
 >escape, I know from experience.  However, after the configuration
 >script is done, it starts xdm as if no runlevels exist (I guess it only
 >checks /etc/X11/config).  I agree fully that a proper implementation of
 >sysvr4 would be a Good Thing.

Ditto.  
I always wandered why there are all those redundant links in rc?.d
dirs, and why I can't easily make a runlevel for xdm I used to have in
Slack.

--
Dimitri
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