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spendabuck
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 Posted: Mon Apr 29, 2002 2:12 pm Post subject: When should I use "rc-update"? |
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 I emerged "gimp" and after it was merged I tried using "rc-update add gimp default" and got this error "/sbin/rc-update: /etc/init.d/gimp not found; aborting" can someone tellme what is it I'm doing wrong. |
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klieber
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| Posted: Mon Apr 29, 2002 2:25 pm Post subject: Re: When should I use "rc-update"? |
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| spendabuck wrote: | | can someone tellme what is it I'm doing wrong. |
You're trying to set a user-space program to run as a system-level daemon. rc scripts are designed to start daemons -- not user-space programs.
Not to mention that Gimp requires some sort of GUI interface, such as X or framebuffer, so you'd need to startx, start kde (or whatever) before you could think about starting Gimp.
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| Posted: Mon Apr 29, 2002 2:36 pm Post subject: |
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| What I am wondering about is what you wanted to achieve with "rc-update add gimp default"? Because as klieber is mentioning there is no real sense in doing that. |
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spendabuck
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| Posted: Mon Apr 29, 2002 2:44 pm Post subject: rc-update |
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 I wasn't sure if I needed to run it after I install a package, all the tutorials I followed like installing samba and cups and some others I had to run the "rc-update add filename default" so I thought I had to do it everytime I installed a package. |
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klieber
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| Posted: Mon Apr 29, 2002 3:12 pm Post subject: Re: rc-update |
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| spendabuck wrote: | | I thought I had to do it everytime I installed a package. |
You only have to do it when you're installing a package that runs as a daemon.
rc scripts are "run control" scripts (or, "run command" scripts, depending on who you ask); they're designed to start system-level daemons at boot.
So, if a particular package doesn't run as a daemon, then you don't have to worry about using rc-update.
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spendabuck
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| Posted: Mon Apr 29, 2002 3:23 pm Post subject: rc-update |
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rac
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| Posted: Mon Aug 19, 2002 8:29 am Post subject: |
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From Desktop Environments to Other Things Gentoo, hopefully future searches will be more likely to turn it up there.
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