runlevels not hierarchical?

wyrickre · Posted: Thu Jul 11, 2002 5:00 pm Post subject: runlevels not hierarchical?

As a recent convert from Mandrake, I find it frustrating that runlevels aren't hierarchical... that is, I can't define a runlevel that has everything the "default" runlevel has plus a few more things. In other words, I want to inherit from default... In other OTHER words, I want to subclass it.

I know I can do this if I explicitly define a new runlevel, then add all the stuff that default has to it... but that's not the same is true inheritance.

Did I miss something in the docs? Is this possible? Is it a good idea?

And just to throw in a thought on how this could be implemented:
Couldn't this be done by making the "subclass" a subdirectory of default (in this example)?

Thanks,
-rew

rojaro · l33t Joined: 06 May 2002 Posts: 732

read the Gentoo Linux 1.0 Init System documentation :)
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klieber · Posted: Thu Jul 11, 2002 5:18 pm Post subject:

wyrickre · Posted: Thu Jul 11, 2002 6:22 pm Post subject:

klieber · Posted: Thu Jul 11, 2002 6:40 pm Post subject:

moving this to gentoo suggestions.

--kurt
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Naan Yaar · Bodhisattva Joined: 27 Jun 2002 Posts: 1549

Hi,

I am sure you have considered this, but all you would need is a one liner script that creates symlinks in the "derived" run level directory by listing the contents of /etc/runlevels/parent_class. Alternatively, you could drop a startup script in the derived directory that basically fires off all scripts from a runlevel class it inherits.

wyrickre · Posted: Thu Jul 11, 2002 10:15 pm Post subject: Re: runlevels not hierarchical?