The decision is made from either a web interface or a script/program from a telnet/debug port session. For example i want to be able to choose to use NTP or not and add this to automatic start. The rc-scripts are placed in a read-only filesystem so i can't write/change anything there while linux is up and running. Also i want the INIT process to take care of the start-up of programs and i think it only parses through inittab.
What do you want to do to switch ?
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Hallo Goran,
snipped-for-privacy@home.se (Goran) schrieb in news: snipped-for-privacy@posting.google.com:
Starting programs from the inittab is mostly not a good idea, because there is no shell context. You should prefer starting things from rc- scripts or, as i did, from an application bootloader, which looks in a seperat file, what to load. This prgram is started from inittab.
Regards, Kurt
Usually this is done with rc scripts.
Here a single file is called in the beginning and same defines one or more environment variable values (e.g. a RunLevel or something you define in a propriety way). This can be used by the following scripts to do decisions.
-Michael
i have used runlevels to decide what daemons etc. should be started. the biggest advantage of runlevels are, that you can change the running programs during your running systems...
it is very useful, if you have x11 installed on a simple linux-box and you only want to use it for administration purposes...
3 lines to enter and you have a "normal" system for your work ;o)MMilitsch
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