Re: running scripts before x-server starts

On Tue, 2007-07-31 at 11:04 +1000, Karl Auer wrote:
On Tue, 2007-07-31 at 10:45 +1000, Lev Lafayette wrote:
im looking for a way to run a script, depending on which option
in grub i choose to run a script before xserver starts.

So modifiy the /etc/rcX.d you want (the 'X' represent runlevels). In
each directory there is files like SXXservice and KXXservice. The S
files represent startup files and the K files represent the kill
files.

The orginal poster wants to do stuff in those scripts depending on what
GRUB options were selected.

Finding the right script to do it in is only half the solution: How is
information passed out of GRUB about what options were selected?


Hmmm... Normally that isn't possible, because GRUB merely determines
what image to boot and the rc's are independent of that.

Under these circumstances I'd recommend Xen or some other virtualisation
software, that way the user can have a separate set of images *and* a
separate set of rc's..

HTH,


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