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From: Roman Zilka <zilka@×××××××.cz>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Anyone have any trouble with rc_parallel="YES" ?
Date: Tue, 19 Jul 2011 07:10:49
Message-Id: 20110719090935.5d418ebf.zilka@fi.muni.cz
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] Anyone have any trouble with rc_parallel="YES" ? by Mick
1 Mick (Tue, 19 Jul 2011 06:55:35 +0100):
2 > On Tuesday 19 Jul 2011 04:39:49 Pandu Poluan wrote:
3 > > Spelunking in /etc/rc.conf, I found the rc_parallel setting,
4 > > accompanied with a quite significant WARNING.
5 > >
6 > > Have anyone experienced any trouble setting rc_parallel to "YES"?
7 > >
8 > > Rgds,
9 >
10 > Not so far (used on 3 boxen).
11 >
12 > However, if say mysql or something else fails to start you will miss the error
13 > message, because it will switch you over to X (depending on the sequence of
14 > start up processes).
15
16 You can catch these errors into a logfile - see option rc_logger in
17 rc.conf. As per a comment there, it won't log the sysinit runlevel, but
18 that's just a few services and you can see that level start up on the
19 screen before X takes over.
20
21 By the way, no problems here with rc_parallel either. And the speed is
22 cool.
23
24 -rz