Subject: Re: File access time sorting speedup - msg#00102

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Re: documents/info about boot process

On Sat, Dec 20, 2003 at 04:46:34PM +0100, Andreas Krings wrote: > R. Dale Thomas wrote: > > >Andreas Krings wrote: > > > >>Hallo, > >> > >>i want to remaster my Knoppix and to change/add a few boot scripts. > >>But i saw that KNOPPIX is not using the default init.d structure from > >>Debian, where all the scripts to start are stored in /etc/rcX.d (with > >>X = [0-6]). There is only a K10Xsession-link to /etc/init.d/xsession. > >>So my question is: From where does KNOPPIX start all the scripts at > >>bootprocess?? Are these scripts are calles from a Configuration > >>script from KNOPPIX or does all services start from Xsession?? > >> > >>I could not find sth. releated to it on the KNOPPIX Wiki Docs. So if > >>andybody know a little bit about it, please let me know! > >> > >>Much thanks for your help & greetings > >> > >>Andreas > > > > > > The init scripts are located in /etc/init.d and are symlinked to > >in the /etc/rcX.d directorys in a sysV like fashion. > > > > Yes, that is the sysV-System in Debian (and other Distros). But in > KNOPPIX there is only a Symlink to init.d/xsession in every etc/rcX.d/ > directory. That is why i asked this question: I do not know this > runlevel-system which is used here! ;-( Well, it is the SysV-System that is used in Debian. ;-) > So does anybody could please explain it to me or can give me a hint/link > to docs. I did not found sth. about it in the KNOPPIX WiKi-Docs. See above. The first answer to your question was correct. Regards -Klaus Knopper

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Adjusting knoppix for use in school-environment

Hello there, i´m using the latest knoppix-version (3.3 update) and installed it on harddisk for testing purpose. My goal is to replace several windows (xp) clients in our school with a pre-configured knoppix 3.3 (german version). To do that, i would really appreciate to get some help for the following tasks: 1. I want to configure a normal user-account (i.e. customized desktop-settings, pre-configured mozilla settings etc.) and then "lock" this account so that the students can only use the system but cannot change any look&feel or other settings within this account (including the user password). Any help would be greatly appreciated. 2. This is optional, not a must. It would be great if the user-account mentioned above would log on automatically upon system-boot and mozilla would start right away in a maximised window. 3. Is there something like a task-scheduler in koppix that can accomplish the following task: If there is no user activity for several minutes (no mouse and/or keyboard activity) mozilla should close itself and restart right after (so that the pre-defined starting-page is loaded again). Thanks for all your help, Daniel

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Re: File access time sorting speedup

On Fri, Dec 19, 2003 at 07:17:22PM -0800, R. Dale Thomas wrote: > I read the archive of this list in which Klaus Knopper answered the > question about bootup speed. In that response, Klaus states that he uses > "the file access times as sorting criteria". He then goes on to give a > sample > script of what he means. In the example script, he uses the /KNOPPIX.build > directory that appears to be the root of the system and checks for access > times /KNOPPIX.build is an additionally mounted directory that is used for writing the ISO image and contains some other supportive files that are NOT to be written to the image (mkisofs -m /KNOPPIX.build). The / is also the root file system for the cloop-compressed iso image. Just my individual setup. > of the files. I assume that this is a separate partition that has just been > booted so the access times have been set by that boot process. Can anyone > clearify the procedure that was used leading up to this process? > This is my take on the process: > A partition is used for a copy of the 'ready to burn' cd image with an > additional > directory of KNOPPIX.build. First the timestamp file is created. Than the partition containing the KNOPPIX / file system is booted, so the access times are set on the ext2 filesystem. Then, a find-script creates the list of files changed since the modification date of the timestamp file. A cleaner way would be running a kernel with the open()-trace patch. Regards -Klaus Knopper

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apt: .. 287 not upgraded !!!

Hi after some apt-get installs the database is confused. (I said no at the Y/n prompt when apt wanted to remove 130 kde packages, which was nonsense obviously) I heard several people had the same problem. How do I get back to the database state where I was? (the former /var/cache/apt/status-old is not available anymore) I don't want neither to upgrade nor remove anything. Please help. Matthias