too many deamons by default - F7 test 2 live cd

Josh Boyer jwboyer at jdub.homelinux.org
Mon Mar 19 18:56:47 UTC 2007


On Mon, 2007-03-19 at 13:53 -0500, Michael E Brown wrote:
> On Mon, Mar 19, 2007 at 02:06:13PM -0400, Jeremy Katz wrote:
> > On Mon, 2007-03-19 at 10:09 -0700, Florin Andrei wrote:
> > > Rahul Sundaram wrote:
> > > > 
> > > > It would do that everytime on bootup though. Right? Can we make it 
> > > > disable itself if the support is not there on first run?
> > > 
> > > What would be nice is have a program that goes through all init scripts 
> > > after the installer is done and disables those services for whom there's 
> > > no capability in the hardware.
> > > Sounds like something that firstboot could do.
> > 
> > Except that the hardware that's attached to your system changes.  Maybe
> > you don't have bluetooth built-in on your machine, but you plug in a
> > bluetooth USB dongle at some point.
> 
> Or, if you are on a recent Dell laptop with libsmbios installed and run
> "dellWirelessCtl --boot --bt 1" to enable bluetooth at runtime. (assuming you
> have that module installed.)

Or if you're on a thinkpad and you hit "Fn-F5".  All variations of
"hardware that's attached to your system changes."  :)

josh




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