Comments on: Maemo on amd64 http://danielkitta.org/blog/2006/10/11/maemo-on-amd64/ Delusional ramblings of a narcistic individual. Fri, 11 Feb 2011 08:00:05 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: danielk http://danielkitta.org/blog/2006/10/11/maemo-on-amd64/comment-page-1/#comment-14 danielk Mon, 23 Oct 2006 14:01:52 +0000 http://www.danielkitta.org/blog/2006/10/11/maemo-on-amd64/#comment-14 As it happens I just stumbled upon <code>update-rc.d</code>, a tool shipped with Debian and derived distributions for use by package installation scripts. I have updated the <a title="Maemo 2.0 on Ubuntu/amd64 Howto" href="http://danielkitta.org/howto/maemo-amd64" rel="nofollow">howto</a> to make use of <code>update-rc.d</code>, as this makes the runlevel linking bit look a lot less threatening. As it happens I just stumbled upon update-rc.d, a tool shipped with Debian and derived distributions for use by package installation scripts. I have updated the howto to make use of update-rc.d, as this makes the runlevel linking bit look a lot less threatening.

]]> By: danielk http://danielkitta.org/blog/2006/10/11/maemo-on-amd64/comment-page-1/#comment-13 danielk Tue, 17 Oct 2006 13:03:34 +0000 http://www.danielkitta.org/blog/2006/10/11/maemo-on-amd64/#comment-13 When SysV init makes a transition from one runlevel to another, it runs the init scripts linked to from the appropriate /etc/rc?.d directory. The names of the links put there to start a service are prefixed with "S" whereas those intented to stop a running service have the "K" prefix. The two-digit number that follows then defines the order in which the various scripts are executed, since often an initialization task depends on something else having already been initialized. The particular values I chose in this howto just happened to fit somewhere in between. Of course this is highly system-dependent, thus I cannot say for sure whether the same numbers are going to work on Debian, for instance. An interesting side note: Ubuntu is developing a replacement for SysV init called <a title="upstart - event-based init daemon" href="http://upstart.ubuntu.com/" rel="nofollow">upstart</a>, to be included with Edgy Eft. Apart from being asynchronous, this will presumably make the whole system initializiation business much more sanely configurable and less error-prone. When SysV init makes a transition from one runlevel to another, it runs the init scripts linked to from the appropriate /etc/rc?.d directory. The names of the links put there to start a service are prefixed with “S” whereas those intented to stop a running service have the “K” prefix. The two-digit number that follows then defines the order in which the various scripts are executed, since often an initialization task depends on something else having already been initialized.

The particular values I chose in this howto just happened to fit somewhere in between. Of course this is highly system-dependent, thus I cannot say for sure whether the same numbers are going to work on Debian, for instance.

An interesting side note: Ubuntu is developing a replacement for SysV init called upstart, to be included with Edgy Eft. Apart from being asynchronous, this will presumably make the whole system initializiation business much more sanely configurable and less error-prone.

]]> By: Murray Cumming http://danielkitta.org/blog/2006/10/11/maemo-on-amd64/comment-page-1/#comment-12 Murray Cumming Tue, 17 Oct 2006 11:40:54 +0000 http://www.danielkitta.org/blog/2006/10/11/maemo-on-amd64/#comment-12 So what's all that K86*, S94*, K85*, S95* stuff about? So what’s all that K86*, S94*, K85*, S95* stuff about?

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