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From: Pandu Poluan <pandu@××××××.info>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] rc_sys -- what for?
Date: Thu, 14 Jul 2011 13:33:32
Message-Id: CAA2qdGUDxUPjhFgNTqQohTReG4tNcR6NSwwqwEKLNXFXaD+Ovg@mail.gmail.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] rc_sys -- what for? by Albert Hopkins
1 On Thu, Jul 14, 2011 at 19:24, Albert Hopkins <marduk@×××××××××××.org> wrote:
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4 > On Thursday, July 14 at 18:59 (+0700), Pandu Poluan said:
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6 >> One question's been haunting my mind since migration to baselayout-2:
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8 >> What's the purpose of setting rc_sys?
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10 >> (In my case, to "xenU")l
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12 >> Rgds,
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15 > Just briefly looking at the sources...
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17 >      * It affects when some filesystems are mounted (e.g. xenfs).
18 >      * It determines if dmesg is written to /var/log/messages on boot.
19 >      * For openvz it writes a "halt record" on shutdown/reboot.
20 >      * For FreeBSD it does something with sysctl
21 >      * Probably some other stuff
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24 Ah, so it's truly useful then ;-)
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26 Thanks for the answer!
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28 Rgds,
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