Subj : Re: For you SBBS Sysops o
To   : Arelor
From : Gamgee
Date : Mon Jul 01 2024 08:00:00

-=> 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?

Indeed.


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