On Sun, 2006-09-24 at 14:34 +0930, n0dalus wrote:
On 9/24/06, Dan Williams <dcbw(a)redhat.com> wrote:
>
> Maybe those services should get fixed to check for the existence of a
> network connection before trying to do what they do. Rather than
> hacking around dumb apps, we should fix the problem at the source.
>
Very true.
In addition, it would be nice if other services didn't have to wait
for non-related services to start before they do. I know there have
been people looking into alternatives to the current init system --
does anyone know the progress of this?
http://upstart.ubuntu.com/ - also see
http://lists.netsplit.com/pipermail/upstart-devel/2006-September/000065.html for future
plans