where can i get a good read (preferably website) on the slack init scripts thingy?

You probabli know this already, but as far as i remember the Slack online book on slackware.com has a good section on init scripts...
Hope that helps

-NSKL

I know its not web, but I have an Unleashed of Slackware 7 I got on sale in a bookstore, Had an old dog eared 3.X that I gave to a friend when I got the 7.0 one

Slackware uses a BSDish scheme for booting scripts. Got the idea?

Anyway, the best place to start learning about that is /etc/rc.d

HTH a Lil'

vfs.

thanks all...

i looked through all the scripts. i can't seem to find the part where they mount the various partitions. i want to NOT mount some of the partitions at boot-up.

any clues where to look?

I don't mean to be rude, but is there any particular reason you want to do this by editing your init scripts? If you edit your /etc/fstab appropriately, you can have various partitions only mount when you specify (as with cds/dvds/zips/floppies/etc).

If you don't want to mount all your partitions, do what Thymox said, this way. Suppose you don't want /dev/hda1 to be mounted at boottime. So put this line (replace the existing one!) in /etc/fstab:

/dev/hda1 /my_bad_named_dir ext2 noauto 0 0

HTH.

And please, ask correctly for help. I thought you were interested about learning how the booting process works, not mounting/umounting devices.

BTW, 'grep' for the line 'mount -a' in /etc/rc.d (I can't remember if in /etc/rc.d/rc.M or rc.S). This one mounts every partition duringboot proccess.

vfs.

firstly, i WAS interested in the booting process, so my question was relevant. the unmounting bit came later.

secondly, don't worry about being rude. i'll roll with it.

thirdly, why didn't i use /etc/fstab? coz i was looking too deeply into something new and forgot all about it.

thanks for the help.

Didn't see the trees for the wood, eh? We've all been there at some point (some of use are still there - I've made myself a nice little cottage coz I'm there so frequently). Just outta curiosity, which part of the boot process were you looking at? I recently (last week) had to drastically kill my machine so I will be starting afresh. Since I haven't got time to fiddle with an LFS at the moment, I was going to look into boot-processes myself...

Gui10:

Ok... Nevermind, but I think you could, i don't know, post something like "Howto ..." . Recently, I posted some bad subjects and people started to ... on me :-/

Anyway... Looks like your problem is over, uh?

vfs.

yea... i guess i gotta use more imagination for my thread headers. i usually spend 5 mins wondering what i should put and end up putting something really lousy. geez...

well, i was looking into ALL the scripts relating to the boot process for the first time in my linux adventures. initially it looked intimidating so i approached with some trepidation. but eventually some of it made sense. the best part is that it's really well commented, thanks to Patrick. hardly need to look elsewhere to know where things are enabled/disabled or what's going on. after staring for a while, it made sense. (of course, it also meant hitting my forehead after reading Thymox's apt reminder about fstab... )

of course, that doesn't mean i can understand all of the stuff i'm looking at. a lot of it still looks like garbled nonsense to me (i know it's not... i'm just not all that familiar with scripts at the moment... )