Hi. OK, this gets slightly off topic... Oliver Hensel schrieb am Tue, 19 Dec 2000 um 01:50:
On Tue, 19 Dec 2000, Bastian Friedrich wrote:
I most definitely want to do that in a couple of cases. Although SuSE's init structure is fine for the regular user, there's no point in parsing /etc/rc.config `ls /etc/rc.d/rc3.d/ |wc -l` (= 102 in my place) times just to pick out a single "yes" or "no" for services you'll _never_ want to start and in some cases even haven't installed (and yes, as everybody else I wonder why the heck SuSE believes users want nscd).
How much time does it take for a modern computer to parse this? 1 sec? 2 sec?
102 sequential (cached) reads of rc.config indeed take 1.3 secs on my desktop, right.
will you really notice?
If you ever saw that film about the first days of silicon valley and Steve Jobs' comments on booting... Linux systems can boot fast - look at your favourite one-floppy-linux-dist or whatever; SuSE is no better or worse than other dists in that point - but I think booting is bloated. I do not want to check for the NFS server in rc.config on my clients because I do not need them and I never will. I do not even _want_ a Mercedes if my VW Golf is sufficient. Even though a small percentage of Linux boxes may be in the 5000+ user range, the Rest Of Us [tm] does not need LDAP/NIS/NSCD servers on their desktops. nscd has been a source of trouble for many ppl - I have not heard of anybody who would have gained from it; I expect administrators of servers in the 5000+-user-range to be able to start services like nscd by themselves.
If I'll get my laptop on wednesday (most definitely booting more than once a day), I'll throw out 90% of the start scripts.
do what you want, but I would recommend to just set it to "no" in /etc/rc.config.
... Which I can do additionally to removing the start scripts.
What happens if you install the update for, say nkitb? servers start again, which you didn't want?
You do not expect updated packages to work out of the box in every case, do you?
PS: Nix, if you quote the question _above_ your answer in your reply, things will be easyer... And plz stop full quoting.
Hey, it's not the really big volume list, is it?
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