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Re: sgi: 8.3.8: /etc/rc2.d
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Robert A Basch)
Mon Jun 21 11:30:26 1999
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To: Greg Hudson <ghudson@MIT.EDU>
Cc: Jonathon Weiss <jweiss@MIT.EDU>, testers@MIT.EDU
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Mon, 21 Jun 1999 09:53:29 EDT."
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Date: Mon, 21 Jun 1999 11:30:17 EDT
From: Robert A Basch <rbasch@MIT.EDU>
> If the rc2.d link points into /os, then presumably it's part of a
> package which was installed in symlink mode, and it will attempt to
> run programs which are also symlinks pointing to /os. So bringing
> just the links local wouldn't help much.
Right. And bringing the packages local is not feasible, because of the
increase in disk space used on root, and the corresponding increase in
install time. (It's not only a matter of bringing the containing packages
local; these packages have dependencies in turn requiring others to be
made local as well).
The links should be to things we don't want to start at boot time, and/or
are config'ed off anyway.
Bob
