[gentoo-user] hotplug in runlevel?

[gentoo-user] hotplug in runlevel?

[Jorge Almeida]

Should hotplug be removed from the boot runlevel?

The emerge warning "WARNING: The hotplug init script is now gone (dead
and buried)." doesn't make it clear.

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Re: [gentoo-user] hotplug in runlevel?

[Jorge Almeida]

On Fri, 1 Sep 2006, Richard Fish wrote:

> On 9/1/06, Jorge Almeida <jalmeida@math.ist.utl.pt> wrote:
>>  Should hotplug be removed from the boot runlevel?
>
> Considering that the script is now (nearly) empty and useless, it
> doesn't really matter.  It just clutters up your boot messages, you
> are are free to keep it if you want.... :-P
>
Well, this is how the warning should be:
* WARNING: The hotplug init script is now gone (dead but not yet buried).
To deep-six it, remove it from your runlevels with rc-update.
;-)

Thanks.

Jorge
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Re: [gentoo-user] hotplug in runlevel?

[Richard Fish]

On 9/1/06, Anthony E. Caudel <acaudel@gt.rr.com> wrote:
>
> Can hotplug then be unmerged?

This is Gentoo.  You can do anything you want. ;-)

But it probably isn't a good idea, as the hotplug scripts are still
used for...well....various things.  For example, setting the
permissions on USB scanners when they are plugged in.

However, there is starting to become quite a bit of overlap (and
occasional conflicts) between udev and hotplug, so I expect that
eventually most of the hotplug functionality will just get absorbed
into udev.

-Richard
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