From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1MpLro-00016A-8N for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Sun, 20 Sep 2009 12:50:12 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 2B0FAE096C; Sun, 20 Sep 2009 12:50:11 +0000 (UTC) Received: from outbound.icp-qv1-irony-out4.iinet.net.au (outbound.icp-qv1-irony-out4.iinet.net.au [203.59.1.150]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 883B1E096C for ; Sun, 20 Sep 2009 12:50:10 +0000 (UTC) X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Filtered: true X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Result: ApoEABPCtUrLOyQZ/2dsb2JhbADNUoIzgWgFgj0 X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="4.44,419,1249228800"; d="scan'208";a="466839178" Received: from unknown (HELO moriah.localdomain) ([203.59.36.25]) by outbound.icp-qv1-irony-out4.iinet.net.au with ESMTP; 20 Sep 2009 20:50:08 +0800 Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by moriah.localdomain (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2501F19AB67B for ; Sun, 20 Sep 2009 20:50:08 +0800 (WST) X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at localdomain Received: from moriah.localdomain ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (moriah.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id 1AvDmO1+oJ6X for ; Sun, 20 Sep 2009 20:50:02 +0800 (WST) Received: from [192.168.1.2] (rattus [192.168.1.2]) by moriah.localdomain (Postfix) with ESMTP id D033A19B1C2E for ; Sun, 20 Sep 2009 20:50:02 +0800 (WST) Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: runlevels and service list From: William Kenworthy To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org In-Reply-To: References: <1253450052.10837.119.camel@rattus> Content-Type: text/plain Organization: Home in Perth! Date: Sun, 20 Sep 2009 20:50:02 +0800 Message-Id: <1253451002.10837.123.camel@rattus> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.26.3 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: a49d7dc3-df47-4c09-80d6-7c353e3183b1 X-Archives-Hash: 9984da7df655b3eece4b17336678b5a2 On Sun, 2009-09-20 at 15:40 +0300, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: > On 09/20/2009 03:34 PM, William Kenworthy wrote: > > Is there a "reference" list of what services should be started in which > > runlevels? I am interested in hald and dbus in particular. > > > > Googling shows mostly people set them to the default runlevel, but I > > would like a reference or reason ... > > The reason is that they are used by X, and since X is in the default > runlevel, hal and dbus go there too. > > Lots of other things use them as well - not just X, so thats not a reason (and lots of systems that dont have X but need dbus and hal). I would like to know why they are started in the default run-level, not at boot which seems more reasonable for low level hardware support. BillK