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From: Neil Bothwick <neil@××××××××××.uk>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: runlevels and service list
Date: Sun, 20 Sep 2009 16:33:33
Message-Id: 20090920173325.79dd8576@krikkit.digimed.co.uk
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: runlevels and service list by William Kenworthy
1 On Sun, 20 Sep 2009 20:50:02 +0800, William Kenworthy wrote:
2
3 > Lots of other things use them as well - not just X, so thats not a
4 > reason (and lots of systems that dont have X but need dbus and hal). I
5 > would like to know why they are started in the default run-level, not at
6 > boot which seems more reasonable for low level hardware support.
7
8 Because they don't need to go in boot, as evidenced by the successful
9 booting of your system. The boot runlevel is for those services that have
10 to be started before anything else.
11
12 Dbus doesn't need to be put in any runlevel, it will be started when hald
13 needs it.
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17 Neil Bothwick
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19 One person's error is another person's data.

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