On Wed, 2010-07-14 at 22:38 +0200, Lennart Poettering wrote: > On Wed, 14.07.10 16:03, James Antill (james@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx) wrote: > > > > > Or you could just parse inittab and notice when runlevel 3 was listed. > > > > Keeps everything nice and compatible, including existing manuals and > > > > books, and sysadmin knowledge. > > > > > > Is this really such a biggie? I mean Upstart ignores inittab too, the > > > only option it still takes into account is this default runlevel and > > > that only via some shell hackery. > > > > > > We go one step further and also ignore that one line. > > > > That one line is quite important though. I'm also not sure what you > > gain by not parsing it. > > Well, the way things are designed is that we read compat configuration > only if no native configuration for this particular item > exists. Example: we read /etc/init.d/avahi-daemon if > /lib/systemd/system/avahi-daemon.service does not exist. This is > followed everywhere else too. Sure, and for service configuration that seems fine. > Now, if we translate the same logic to inittab we'd have to check > /etc/systemd/systemd/default.target first, and if that doesn't exist > fallback to /etc/inittab. But your runlevel is not a service configuration, so I see no reason why you couldn't say "if there is an 'id:blah:' line in inittab that's authoritative .... if not, use default". -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
