From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([140.105.134.102] helo=robin.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1J9mL0-0005Lu-VD for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Tue, 01 Jan 2008 18:59:43 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.14.2/8.14.0) with SMTP id m01IwsVu030384; Tue, 1 Jan 2008 18:58:54 GMT Received: from mail.marples.name (rsm.demon.co.uk [80.177.111.50]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.14.2/8.14.0) with ESMTP id m01Iu8pT026454 for ; Tue, 1 Jan 2008 18:56:08 GMT Received: from [10.73.1.30] (uberpc.marples.name [10.73.1.30]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by mail.marples.name (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6D3EB1900DE for ; Tue, 1 Jan 2008 18:56:08 +0000 (GMT) Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] RFC: brltty not starting early enough From: Roy Marples To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org In-Reply-To: <20080101180429.GA6454@linux1> References: <20071231205023.GA29744@linux1> <1199190444.2786.2.camel@uberpc.marples.name> <20080101171104.GA6095@linux1> <1199207979.11756.8.camel@uberpc.marples.name> <20080101180429.GA6454@linux1> Content-Type: text/plain Date: Tue, 01 Jan 2008 18:55:53 +0000 Message-Id: <1199213753.11756.14.camel@uberpc.marples.name> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.12.2 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: 5ad26552-05da-4bc4-a76f-89bea0c920b1 X-Archives-Hash: 2283b9ed722263b4fae6549ea3af2e3a On Tue, 2008-01-01 at 12:04 -0600, William Hubbs wrote: > On Tue, Jan 01, 2008 at 05:19:39PM +0000, Roy Marples wrote: > > Some scripts do run before checkroot, such as clock. clock should be the > > first script started, so if you want it to go really early then > > My goal is to have the braille display active as early is possible so > that if an error occurs during the boot process a blind person would > know about it. I can't start before /proc, /dev, and /sys are mounted > because brltty uses things in those filesystems. Can you think of any > possible reason that I would need to start before clock runs? If not, > I'll just use your first suggestion. > > Besides starting later than expected, will anything break if this goes > on a baselayout 1 system? depscan.sh may constantly complain about it You could do this depend() { if [ -z "$svcdir" ]; then before * fi after clock } But I would test to see what happens on baselayout-1 first. Thanks Roy -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list