[gentoo-dev] Initial boot up script location

[gentoo-dev] Initial boot up script location

[Burton Samograd]

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Hi all,

I'm searching around for the scripts that are run before the ones in
/etc/init.d.  These would be the ones that print the following
messages:

 * Mounting /proc...                            [ ok ]
 * Mounting devfs at /dev...                    [ ok ]
 * Starting devfsd...                           [ ok ]
 * Mounting tmpfs at /mnt/.init.d...            [ ok ]
 * Caching service dependencies...              [ ok ]
 * Activating swap...
 Adding Swap: 136544k swap-space (priority -1)  [ ok ]

 I know that checkroot is run first out of the scripts in
 init.d...where is this mystery boot script that does the above work?

burton

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Re: [gentoo-dev] Initial boot up script location

[Burton Samograd]

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On Mon, Sep 30, 2002 at 12:09:40PM -0700, Burton Samograd wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> I'm searching around for the scripts that are run before the ones in
> /etc/init.d.  These would be the ones that print the following
> messages:
> 
>  * Mounting /proc...                            [ ok ]
>  * Mounting devfs at /dev...                    [ ok ]
>  * Starting devfsd...                           [ ok ]
>  * Mounting tmpfs at /mnt/.init.d...            [ ok ]
>  * Caching service dependencies...              [ ok ]
>  * Activating swap...
>  Adding Swap: 136544k swap-space (priority -1)  [ ok ]
> 
>  I know that checkroot is run first out of the scripts in
>  init.d...where is this mystery boot script that does the above work?

Reply to my own post...if people are interested it's located in
/etc/rc.

burton



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Re: [gentoo-dev] Initial boot up script location

[Martin Schlemmer]

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On Mon, 2002-09-30 at 21:22, Burton Samograd wrote:
> On Mon, Sep 30, 2002 at 12:09:40PM -0700, Burton Samograd wrote:
> > Hi all,
> > 
> > I'm searching around for the scripts that are run before the ones in
> > /etc/init.d.  These would be the ones that print the following
> > messages:
> > 
> >  * Mounting /proc...                            [ ok ]
> >  * Mounting devfs at /dev...                    [ ok ]
> >  * Starting devfsd...                           [ ok ]
> >  * Mounting tmpfs at /mnt/.init.d...            [ ok ]
> >  * Caching service dependencies...              [ ok ]
> >  * Activating swap...
> >  Adding Swap: 136544k swap-space (priority -1)  [ ok ]
> > 
> >  I know that checkroot is run first out of the scripts in
> >  init.d...where is this mystery boot script that does the above work?
> 
> Reply to my own post...if people are interested it's located in
> /etc/rc.
> 

I guess you made a type-o and meant: /sbin/rc


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Cape Town, South Africa


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Re: [gentoo-dev] Initial boot up script location

[Burton Samograd]

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On Mon, Sep 30, 2002 at 10:32:42PM +0200, Martin Schlemmer wrote:
> I guess you made a type-o and meant: /sbin/rc

Yup.  My bad. Thanks for the correction.

burton 

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Re: [gentoo-dev] Initial boot up script location

[Sebastian Werner]

Hi!

I think this is really bad but forget to post this sometime ago.
What's about I want to modify this script. All other scripts are protected 
through portage but this file gets overwritten each update. To the developer: 
Is it possible to split this script. I want to see the defined funtions in 
/sbin/rc (leave them in the current place) and the real boot-script in 
/etc/init.d/boot so that I can modify it there... what's about you... what do 
you think?

Regards 

Sebastian

Am Montag, 30. September 2002 22:32 schrieb Martin Schlemmer:
> On Mon, 2002-09-30 at 21:22, Burton Samograd wrote:
> > On Mon, Sep 30, 2002 at 12:09:40PM -0700, Burton Samograd wrote:
> > > Hi all,
> > >
> > > I'm searching around for the scripts that are run before the ones in
> > > /etc/init.d.  These would be the ones that print the following
> > > messages:
> > >
> > >  * Mounting /proc...                            [ ok ]
> > >  * Mounting devfs at /dev...                    [ ok ]
> > >  * Starting devfsd...                           [ ok ]
> > >  * Mounting tmpfs at /mnt/.init.d...            [ ok ]
> > >  * Caching service dependencies...              [ ok ]
> > >  * Activating swap...
> > >  Adding Swap: 136544k swap-space (priority -1)  [ ok ]
> > >
> > >  I know that checkroot is run first out of the scripts in
> > >  init.d...where is this mystery boot script that does the above work?
> >
> > Reply to my own post...if people are interested it's located in
> > /etc/rc.
>
> I guess you made a type-o and meant: /sbin/rc

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Re: [gentoo-dev] Initial boot up script location

[Paul de Vrieze]

On Thursday 03 October 2002 11:29, Sebastian Werner wrote:
> Hi!
>
> I think this is really bad but forget to post this sometime ago.
> What's about I want to modify this script. All other scripts are protected
> through portage but this file gets overwritten each update. To the
> developer: Is it possible to split this script. I want to see the defined
> funtions in /sbin/rc (leave them in the current place) and the real
> boot-script in /etc/init.d/boot so that I can modify it there... what's
> about you... what do you think?
>

You could of course use chattr to make /sbin/rc immutable, but I would suggest 
you don't, as it is dangerous. 

Paul

ps. you can of course give your own init script a different name and change 
/etc/inittab accordingly.

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Re: [gentoo-dev] Initial boot up script location

[Sebastian Werner]

Am Donnerstag, 3. Oktober 2002 11:58 schrieb Paul de Vrieze:
> On Thursday 03 October 2002 11:29, Sebastian Werner wrote:
> > Hi!
> >
> > I think this is really bad but forget to post this sometime ago.
> > What's about I want to modify this script. All other scripts are
> > protected through portage but this file gets overwritten each update. To
> > the developer: Is it possible to split this script. I want to see the
> > defined funtions in /sbin/rc (leave them in the current place) and the
> > real boot-script in /etc/init.d/boot so that I can modify it there...
> > what's about you... what do you think?
>
> You could of course use chattr to make /sbin/rc immutable, but I would
> suggest you don't, as it is dangerous.

Sure but's that's not the correct way I think.

>
> Paul
>
> ps. you can of course give your own init script a different name and change
> /etc/inittab accordingly.

And this not, too.

>

To patch my system is one, and to find a global solution some other. I don't 
see why don't split this big file as I said. This is the easiest way and you 
will found all init scripts in /etc/init.d - much cleaner.

Sebastian

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Re: [gentoo-dev] Initial boot up script location

[Paul de Vrieze]

On Thursday 03 October 2002 12:54, Sebastian Werner wrote:

> Sure but's that's not the correct way I think.
>
I know it isn't, that's why its dangerous.

> >
> > ps. you can of course give your own init script a different name and
> > change /etc/inittab accordingly.
>
> And this not, too.
>

The correct way is not to change this script. Maybe you could file a but to 
have some things put in their own init scripts instead of in this file, but 
this file is very dependant on your baselayout, so it should be changed with 
it.

> To patch my system is one, and to find a global solution some other. I
> don't see why don't split this big file as I said. This is the easiest way
> and you will found all init scripts in /etc/init.d - much cleaner.

Some parts of the script can be split, some shouldn't.

Paul

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