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From: Albert Hopkins <marduk@×××××××××××.org>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] rc_sys -- what for?
Date: Thu, 14 Jul 2011 12:26:42
Message-Id: 1310646280.372494.6.camel@localhost.localdomain
In Reply to: [gentoo-user] rc_sys -- what for? by Pandu Poluan
1 On Thursday, July 14 at 18:59 (+0700), Pandu Poluan said:
2
3 > One question's been haunting my mind since migration to baselayout-2:
4 >
5 > What's the purpose of setting rc_sys?
6 >
7 > (In my case, to "xenU")l
8 >
9 > Rgds,
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11
12 Just briefly looking at the sources...
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14 * It affects when some filesystems are mounted (e.g. xenfs).
15 * It determines if dmesg is written to /var/log/messages on boot.
16 * For openvz it writes a "halt record" on shutdown/reboot.
17 * For FreeBSD it does something with sysctl
18 * Probably some other stuff

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Re: [gentoo-user] rc_sys -- what for? Pandu Poluan <pandu@××××××.info>