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inittab '-' character in process field
I have a an inittab file with the following entry:
console::askfirst:-/bin/ash
According to this Man page a '+' character in the process field means
init will not do utmp and wtmp accounting ...
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Gentoo on VM setting IP Manually
I installed Gentoo on Virtualbox with the minimal image. This is the first time I am running gentoo. I need to do
ifconfig eth0 192.168.0.10
route add default gw 192.168.0.1
everytime it boots on ...
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What's the connection between “/etc/init.d” and “/etc/rcX.d” directories in Linux?
I am learning command line from a book called "Linux Command Line and Shell Scripting Bible, Second Edition." The book states this:
Some Linux implementations contain a table of processes to start
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Why does initramfs mount the root filesystem read-only
What is the reason for the root filesystem being mounted ro in the initramfs (and in initrd).
For example the Gentoo initramfs guide mounts the root filesystem with:
mount -o ro /dev/sda1 /mnt/root
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How to run a program on boot up?
So I have this program which I manually run as root :
sudo gammu-smsd -c /etc/gammu-smsdrc -d
What this does is it runs the Gammu (software to manage gsm modems) and 'daemonize' it. My problem is ...
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load program/module at boot
I'm trying to load a program I wrote at boot. The program is also a module.ko and a small bash script. For the module I tried doing depmod mymodule.ko and modprobe -a and messing around with modprob ...
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Removing abstraction from Ubuntu boot process
I have been using Linux after almost 5 years and observed that boot process has been almost abstracted. I mean, not much is visible to the user what is going on behind the scenes (Due to splash ...
