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Subject: Re: Linux question. [OT]

Author: Robert Hyatt

Date: 07:29:35 06/14/02

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On June 14, 2002 at 00:49:55, Steffen Jakob wrote:

>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/*.

I don't know.  Hence my "safe" answer.  I have seen one non-redhat installation
running kudzu.

dead links in /etc/rc.d/rc*.d really don't cause me any problems.  :)




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


It was when we started.  :)


>
>Greetings,
>Steffen.



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