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Subject: Re: Linux question. [OT]

Author: Steffen Jakob

Date: 21:49:55 06/13/02

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On June 14, 2002 at 00:18:29, Robert Hyatt wrote:

>On June 13, 2002 at 23:30:16, Steffen Jakob wrote:
>
>>On June 13, 2002 at 13:03:07, Robert Hyatt wrote:
>>
>>>On June 13, 2002 at 12:59:03, Slater Wold wrote:
>>>
>>>>I just installed Linux on a PC.
>>>>
>>>>At first, it would not install, so I had to boot up using "linux nousb".
>>>>Everything installed fine afterwards.
>>>>
>>>>But now when I boot, it locks up at "Checking for new hardware".
>>>>
>>>>Any idea how to disable that?
>>
>>>Go to /etc/rc.d/init.d and move the file "kudzu" to some unused directory.
>>>
>>>I create a directory in the init.d directory called "UNUSED" and I move
>>>_all_ the initscripts that I don't want to automatically run into that
>>>directory.
>>
>>I dont like to move around files which belong to an RPM, especially if there
>>exists a clean way to do this. Why no simply calling
>>
>>/sbin/chkconfig --del kudzu
>
>The reason I gave the "simple answer" was that not everybody uses a distro
>that is based on RPM.  Slackware for example.

Ok, but is kudzu being used by a different distribution than RH? Also IMHO its
cleaner to use chkconfig on non-RPM based distributions, too, instead of having
dead links in /etc/rc.d/*.

Anyway... it's getting very off topic now ;)

Greetings,
Steffen.



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