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MartinB
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 Posted: Tue Jul 08, 2003 8:50 pm Post subject: Where are the init directories located? |
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I've just been trying to install VMWare 3 and it's asking me the following:
"What is the directory that contains the init directories (rc0.d/ to
rc6.d/)?"
I'm not really sure what to tell it. I tried /etc/init.d/ but it said that this doesn't contain a rc0.d directory. Anyone know where I should tell it to look?
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Naan Yaar
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| Posted: Tue Jul 08, 2003 9:13 pm Post subject: |
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It is looking for Sys V style runlevel directories; Redhat, for example, uses these. Gentoo's init system is quite different. The init files are in /etc/init.d and the scripts for each runlevel are in /etc/runlevels/<runlevel_name>, where <runlevel_name> = default, boot, single, ...
This thread may help.
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NeddySeagoon
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| Posted: Tue Jul 08, 2003 9:24 pm Post subject: |
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Naan Yaar,
The Gentoo runlevels can be found in /etc/runlevels but Gentoo doesn't name them the way that VMWare wants.
You may find VMWare is happy with symlinks, once you have worked out the correspondence.
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NeddySeagon
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Naan Yaar
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As I have indicated in my earlier post, I do know where Gentoo's runlevels are (I have corrected a small typo there). However, the way dependencies are managed and how the init scripts work in Gentoo are totally different from the way they work in a Sys V set-up such as RedHat (dependencies are inherent in the filenames in the latter, whereas such issues are irrelevant under Gentoo).
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The Gentoo runlevels can be found in /etc/runlevels but Gentoo doesn't name them the way that VMWare wants.
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Naan Yaar
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Also, the whole discussion may be a bit moot. There are vmware-workstation ebuilds in portage; they are not masked either.
If you look at the init setup in the ebuild, you will see that the vmware stuff is stored in a different directory and a wrapper init script that is properly "Gentoo-ified" is inserted in init.d. |
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cbreaker
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Since I'm using GSX Server, not Workstation, there was no ebuild.
All I did was create the rc0 - rc6 directories to make vmware happy, and then deleted them when install was done.
Then I went ahead and did a rc-update add vmware default.
No biggie. |
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