[arch-general] Display Manager rc.d scripts

[Tavian Barnes]

On 8 May 2011 12:08, jesse jaara <jesse.jaara at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> While I don't have a firm opinion about this, I tend to disagree with
>> you. I have always been using the rc.d scripts and find they work
>> fine.
>>
>
> As far as I know the only problem that the daemon method
> has is the "boot to runlevel S to fix" problem. So if you
> edit your xorg.conf file impropelly, so that its contains errors,
> or you get powerloss during update/install f X components,
> so that the xorg cant start. You need to boot into single-user
> mode so that you can remove ?gdm? from daemons list, so
> that you can boot propelly to console. If your xorg wont start
> on boot you wont get a console, only a infinite loop of xorg
> trying to start. But if you use runlevel 5 for ?gdm? it will only
> try to start the xorg 5 times and if it fails it will fall back to
> console, so that you ?can? fix the problem. :D
>
> --
> (\_ /) copy the bunny to your profile
> (0.o ) to help him achieve world domination.
> (> <) come join the dark side.
> /_|_\ (we have cookies.)
>

$ tail /etc/rc.conf
DAEMONS1=(syslog-ng dbus)
DAEMONS2=(named ifplugd net-profiles @alsa @acpid @ddclient @privoxy
@openntpd @sshd @mysqld @httpd @git-daemon @samba @sensors
@avahi-daemon @cups @crond)

if [ "$RUNLEVEL" = "5" ];
then
  DAEMONS=(${DAEMONS1[@]} @kdm ${DAEMONS2[@]})
else
  DAEMONS=(${DAEMONS1[@]} ${DAEMONS2[@]})
fi

The best of both worlds.

-- 
Tavian Barnes