Subj : Re: For you SBBS Sysops o
To : Arelor
From : Gamgee
Date : Mon Jul 01 2024 08:00 am
-=> Arelor wrote to Gamgee <=-
Ar> Re: Re: For you SBBS Sysops o
Ar> By: Gamgee to Arelor on Sun Jun 30 2024 07:10 pm
> Ar> I think the elegant solution is to define a "maintenance" runlevel for
> Ar> when you want to boot up without starting all your user facing
> Ar> services, rather than having your main runlevel start only the basics
> Ar> and then force you to start your services manually.
> Hahaha! Yes, I guess that would be possible. But worth the effort?
Ar> Slackware's init system is so hackable that I think achieving
Ar> this is actually easy. If you have to manually launch your
Ar> services more than 6 times in the lifetime of your OS instance
Ar> then I'd think implementing this is actually worth the 7 minutes
Ar> it takes. Plus it will be fun for you to learn how inittab and
Ar> company work if you don't know already.
True enough, would be easy to do. It doesn't change the fact though,
that I basically *never* want the BBS to start automatically at bootup.
So at least for me, it's not applicable. I don't mind starting it
manually, and in fact want to do it that way. ;-)
Ar> And fun is the main reason why people keeps hobby home labs,
Ar> isn't it?
