Fedora 10 - Boot Analysis
Les Mikesell
lesmikesell at gmail.com
Wed Dec 17 20:40:44 UTC 2008
Behdad Esfahbod wrote:
>
>>>> Where do you receive your notifications that your disk space is nearly
>>>> full, or that smartctl thinks a drive is dangerously near death?
>>> Guess where those notifications go? In /var/spool/mail/root. Guess
>>> who pops
>>> up a notification on my non-root desktop to notify me that my harddisk is
>>> dying? Nobody.
>> Ahh, so you've finally identified a problem that needs to be solved.
>> Unless you think the distribution should cater only to people who don't
>> care if their computers work or not?
>
> A problem needing fix was identified at the beginning of the thread.
Waiting for daemon startup before doing something else in the bootup
sequence has a simple solution. Don't wait. You don't have to remove
functionality.
> Except
> that you insist on keeping the broken status quo.
The status quo in terms of services is not broken. Other programs
should be able to assume that a reasonable operating systems includes
mail delivery.
> Things like hardware notifications can much easier be done using HAL and D-BUS
> than using local mail.
Such notifications would not be likely to seen by me as I almost never
sit near the machines where the disks live. Who gets them if multiple
users are logged in via X or freenx? Or if no one is logged in at all,
or if X isn't running?
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Les Mikesell
lesmikesell at gmail.com
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