I need some Gentoo tips...

[Brett I. Holcomb]

init.d contains the scripts which are symlinked to files in directories 
under /etc/runlevels.  There are /etc/runlevels/boot and default, and nonet 
that come with the system.


tom wrote:

> Greets List, Jerry,
> 
> Jerry McBride <mcbrides9 at comcast.net> wrote:
> 
>>On Tue, 01 Apr 2003 22:59:38 -0500 tmarinis99 at netscape.net (tom) wrote:
>>--snip--
>>
>>> The start-up scripts that reside in locations in the /etc/rc.d/r0X.d
>>> SYS4 format, say like Caldera or Redhat, then the system numbers
>>> are the ones you modify for networking and pcmcia are, for example
>>> 
>>
>>Sorry, no such directory structure in Gentoo. I've got a /etc/init.d and
>>/etc/runlevels. The runlevels directory has boot, default, gui, nonetwork
>>and single... these directories contain links to the scripts in
>>/etc/init.d. It appears that the links are executed in alphabetical
>>order... no pcmcia resource is linked in /etc/runlevels... Really pita if
>>you ask me.
>>
>>---
> 
> Hmmm... okay then, I may not know what the scripting looks like,
> but it doesn't mean it can't be found somewhere in there...
> 
> I'd look for something like /etc/{rc.0 or rc.6 or halt or reboot}
> 
> if you find a runlevel like that, then it's a matter of finding
> where that script is run, so I would do a quick search with
> "grep and egrep", and see where that takes me.
> 
> perform a wide search for something like
> 
> ]$ grep "# Shut down PCMCIA services" /etc/runlevels.*
> 
> or
> 
> ]$ egrep " pcmcia|PCMCIA|DOWN|down|Down" /etc/runlevels.*
> 
> and review what files call the PCMCIA interface and the eth0
> interface.  Go from there, and when you find the script,
> switch them around.
> 
> 
> For instance, Slackware runs something called /etc/rc.d/rc.inet1 &
> rc.inet2 for networking scripts, but has rc.0 and rc.6 scripts for
> stoping and rebooting the OS.  However, Slackware uses something like
> rc.pcmcia to start the card modules if needed.
> 
> Gentoo should have something like that as well.  You should look for
> something that looks a little bit like ;
> 
> # Shut down PCMCIA devices:
> if [ -x /etc/rc.d/rc.pcmcia ] ; then
>   . /etc/rc.d/rc.pcmcia stop
> fi
> 
> 
> if you do find this in your shutdown script, you may have
> to delay the shutdown process with PCMCIA, by doing a
> "sleep" command...Slackware does this as well...
> 
> 
> # Shut down PCMCIA devices:
> if [ -x /etc/rc.d/rc.pcmcia ] ; then
>   . /etc/rc.d/rc.pcmcia stop
> # Modified by Jerry to permit pcmcia and network shutdown
>   sleep 5
> fi
> 
> ---
> 
> or, worse case, switch the location of the scripts that
> start the network and pcmcia init's.
> 
> I'd try it out...maybe make a copy of the original scripts before
> you try modifying them, incase of something goes wierd after the
> changes.
> 
> 
> Hope this helps....
> 
> 
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