On July 24, 2003 15:40, Mark Mielke wrote:
On Thu, Jul 24, 2003 at 08:49:16AM -0400, Simon Perreault wrote:
> Jean-Eric Cuendet wrote:
> >What do you think guys if someone did the following to speed the boot
> >time in RHL?
> >- Boot kernel (uncompressible)
> >- Run the init scripts S00 -> S50
> >- Start X + XDM + UserLogin
> >- Continue init scripts S51->S99 in background
>
> I think this should have been done a long time ago.
Is that really so easy to do, though?
X is normally managed by init, wheras the init scripts are
managed by /etc/rc.d/rc.sysinit.
When rc reaches S51, it forks a children which continues the job, detaches it
and returns. init continues its job and starts X, while rc is still starting
daemons.
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