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From: "W.Kenworthy" <billk@×××××××××.au>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Collecting bootchart files after boot
Date: Mon, 16 Jul 2007 02:15:10
Message-Id: 1184551764.4477.43.camel@localhost
In Reply to: [gentoo-user] Collecting bootchart files after boot by felix@crowfix.com
1 untried:
2
3 create another init.d script with an "after local.start" parameter - I
4 think this works
5
6 use a batch file to do the saving which includes a sleep command, then
7 trigger it from local.start using nohup - this has worked for me in the
8 past.
9
10 Billk
11
12 On Sun, 2007-07-15 at 17:49 -0700, felix@×××××××.com wrote:
13 > I have been collecting bootchart info for each boot, curiousity and no
14 > more. It is interesting sometimes to look at them and see if minor
15 > tweaks can change things, but I have no serious use for the data.
16 > Thus it took me a while to realize that the .png and .tgz files are
17 > not generated until rc has finished the boot, which is after
18 > local.start has run. I have code in local.start to save the current
19 > bootchart.* files in a time-stamped dir for each boot, and they are
20 > all off by one. It is more amusing than alarming.
21 >
22 > I understand why this happens. Is there any way to automatically run
23 > a script like local.start but after rc finishes? I had thought of
24 > putting something in local.stop to copy the current bootchart.* files,
25 > but that smells a bit too kludgery.
26 >
27 > --
28 > ... _._. ._ ._. . _._. ._. ___ .__ ._. . .__. ._ .. ._.
29 > Felix Finch: scarecrow repairman & rocket surgeon / felix@×××××××.com
30 > GPG = E987 4493 C860 246C 3B1E 6477 7838 76E9 182E 8151 ITAR license #4933
31 > I've found a solution to Fermat's Last Theorem but I see I've run out of room o
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