Daemons in rc.conf: order ok?

This is the daemon line in rc.conf
DAEMONS=(syslog-ng hal network netfs crond cups alsa slim)
Is this ok? Do I need any other drivers? I want to print (cups!) stream music (via stream tuner) and look at my digital photos and manipulate them via gimp.

You could background the last four.
You could remove slim and instead edit /etc/inittab (id:5:initdefault: and run slim form the "x:5:respawn:" line). Why? it means you can turn the gui off and on easily (init 3, init 5 and from grub append 3 to the boot line to get text mode, multiuser. No need to make that change, just more flexibility.
Last edited by vacant (2007-11-17 11:46:11)

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Hey :- ) ,
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wlan0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:1D:E0:5A:4B:63
inet addr:10.0.0.12 Bcast:10.0.0.255 Mask:255.255.255.0
UP BROADCAST MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
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TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
RX bytes:0 (0.0 b) TX bytes:0 (0.0 b)
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wlan0 IEEE 802.11g ESSID:"<myessid>"
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Tx-Power=27 dBm
Retry min limit:7 RTS thr:off Fragment thr=2346 B
Link Quality:0 Signal level:0 Noise level:0
Rx invalid nwid:0 Rx invalid crypt:0 Rx invalid frag:0
Tx excessive retries:0 Invalid misc:0 Missed beacon:0
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and ifconfig wlan0 , iwconfig wlan0 looks like
ifconfig wlan0
wlan0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:1D:E0:5A:4B:63
inet addr:10.0.0.12 Bcast:10.0.0.255 Mask:255.255.255.0
inet6 addr: fe80::21d:e0ff:fe5a:4b63/64 Scope:Link
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TX packets:19 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
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Here i am posting my files.Some parts of it are commented/disabled to swap among netcfg2 configuration and manual rc.conf edited configuration.
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HOSTNAME="robonoobs"
lo="lo 127.0.0.1"
#WLAN_INTERFACE=(wlan0)
#eth0="eth0 10.0.0.12 netmask 255.255.255.0 broadcast 10.0.0.255"
#wlan0="wlan0 10.0.0.12 netmask 255.255.255.0 broadcast 10.0.0.255"
#wlan_wlan0="wlan0 mode managed essid <myessid>"
#following /bin/sleep 5 is there just to get a chance to see messages without searching logs during #testing period
#echo "SLEEP 5"
#/bin/sleep 5
#WIFI_WAIT = 10
INTERFACES=(lo !eth0 !wlan0)
gateway="default gw 10.0.0.1"
ROUTES=(gateway)
# Network profiles are found in /etc/network-profiles
NET_PROFILES=(!wifi_init)
#complete found at /etc/network.d/
NETWORKS=(complete !wifi_init)
# DAEMONS
DAEMONS=(syslog-ng netfs !crond alsa !fam hal network net-profiles kdm)
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CONNECTION="wireless"
DESCRIPTION="Very verbose complete wireless example"
INTERFACE=wlan0
HOSTNAME=robonoobs
# Interface Settings (use IFOPTS="dhcp" for DHCP)
IP="static"
IFOPTS="inet 10.0.0.12 netmask 255.255.255.0 broadcast 10.0.0.255"
GATEWAY=10.0.0.1
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#IFOPTS=dhcp
#DHCP_TIMEOUT=20 # Default is 10.
#DHCP_OPTIONS="" # Extra arguments for dhcpcd
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DOMAIN=robonoobs.domain.org
DNS1=10.0.0.1
DNS2=
SEARCH=
# Standard Wireless Settings
ESSID=<myessid>
SECURITY=none # One of wep, wpa, wpa-config, none
#KEY="SomePasskey"
# Scans to see if network is available before connecting (reccomended)
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WPA_OPTS=
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WPA_CONF=
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PRE_UP=
POST_UP=
PRE_DOWN=
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here follows "iwconfig wlan0" right after booting is completed, which shows wlan0 associated with the AP in question:
wlan0 IEEE 802.11g ESSID:"<myessid>"
Mode:Managed Frequency:2.412 GHz Access Point: 00:14:7F:84:8D:67
Bit Rate=54 Mb/s Tx-Power=27 dBm
Retry min limit:7 RTS thr:off Fragment thr=2346 B
Encryption key:off
Link Quality=88/100 Signal level=-45 dBm Noise level=-127 dBm
Rx invalid nwid:0 Rx invalid crypt:0 Rx invalid frag:0
Tx excessive retries:0 Invalid misc:0 Missed beacon:0
here is ifconfig wlan0 right after booting up:
wlan0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:1D:E0:5A:4B:63
inet addr:10.0.0.12 Bcast:10.0.0.255 Mask:255.255.255.0
BROADCAST MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
RX bytes:0 (0.0 b) TX bytes:0 (0.0 b)
At this part i am only able to ping 10.0.0.12 .
Here ere are both of them after issuing ifconfig wlan0 up and iwconfig wlan0 essid <myessid>
ifconfig wlan0
wlan0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:1D:E0:5A:4B:63
inet addr:10.0.0.12 Bcast:10.0.0.255 Mask:255.255.255.0
inet6 addr: fe80::21d:e0ff:fe5a:4b63/64 Scope:Link
UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:24 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:23 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
RX bytes:2072 (2.0 Kb) TX bytes:2160 (2.1 Kb)
iwconfig wlan0 essid <myessid>
wlan0 IEEE 802.11g ESSID:"<myessid>"
Mode:Managed Frequency:2.412 GHz Access Point: 00:14:7F:84:8D:67
Bit Rate=54 Mb/s Tx-Power=27 dBm
Retry min limit:7 RTS thr:off Fragment thr=2346 B
Encryption key:off
Link Quality=100/100 Signal level=-40 dBm Noise level=-92 dBm
Rx invalid nwid:0 Rx invalid crypt:0 Rx invalid frag:0
Tx excessive retries:0 Invalid misc:0 Missed beacon:0
At this point i can ping all my local network devices , such as my gateway at 10.0.0.1. but no internet "connect: Network is unreachable" after issuing
/etc/rc.d/network restart
everything is up and running and i have access to the net.This seems quite a puzzle to me, since restarting network should reset everything and i should be able to ping only 10.0.0.12 , no?
Thats it, unfortunately i didnt manage to get a workaround on that alone ...propably i am overlooking something obvious badly.
Any suggestions on how to fix this, or any other way on geting wifi completely working on boot without touching my laptop will be greatly appreciated.
IMG

Well , since this issue got seriously on my nervers and took me a day trying things out with no luck, i studied a bit of shell programming and wrote a script to configure my net on boot, copied it with the correct permissions in /etc/rc.d/ , added it in my daemons at rc.conf, and there you go! Net on boot finally : -).
#!/bin/sh
echo "sleeping to ensure network is up"
/bin/sleep 2
until [ "$(ifconfig wlan0 | grep -c "UP")" != "0" ]
do
echo "waiting for wlan0 interface to get UP"
/bin/sleep 2
done
echo "checking if wlan0 is associated "
while [ "$(iwconfig wlan0 | grep -c "Access Point: Not-Associated")" != "0" ]
do
$(iwconfig wlan0 essid Virus_Home)
echo "sleeping for 20 seconds to give hardware some time to associate "
/bin/sleep 20
done
exit 0
However i dont concider my solution elegant , so if anyone can figure out why net doesnt get configured correctly on boot without my script i would love to know as well.
enjoy,
IMG

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Networkmanager daemon does not connect ethernet while bootup...

after last Kernelupdate.
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NetworkManager: nm_ip4_config_add_nameserver: assertion `nameserver != s' failed
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Last edited by killajoe (2010-02-10 18:37:19)

killajoe wrote:
Yes i found it by my self shame on me ...
hal must be before networkmanager now! (daemons array @ rc.conf)
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Just installed woodoo without internet connect
so I typed in bash:
dhcpcd
and I'm out to the net.
But I don't want to do that thing every time I'm boot up my computer.
So I read this: http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Daemons , and typed in bash:
/etc/rc.d/dhcpcd start
and get this back:
bash: /etc/rc.d/dhcpcd: No such file or directory
..so I need some help to get dhcpcd act like a daemon, sombody?
Last edited by sevenenx (2007-03-02 15:24:45)

I am reading your responses and also have a hard time understanding what you want.
Are you connecting directly or through a wireless device?
If directly have you installed ifplugd and added the daemon to rc.conf.
If via wireless:
are you roaming or consistently connecting to the same device?
on boot up do you receive any errors? (8B2A etc)
Would you please give us more information so we can accurately determine what needs to be changed in your setup. i.e. Configuration files and your setup.
I personally roam a lot so on boot I do not start my network connections but start ifplugd. Then I have small script that I can use if I am wireless to connect to whatever router is nearby. The benefit is great for roaming as boot time is really decreased and starting the script takes milliseconds as then it knows exactly who to connect to. You could also set dhcpcd to start when you start your DE or WM.

Basic daemon question

Howdy,
I just recently finished a fresh install of Arch and am planning to use KDE. Like an idiot, I put the kdm daemon into rc.conf but forgot to list hal. What can I do to edit rc.conf given that my keyboard and mouse stop working as soon as kdm is launched?

press ctrl+alt+f1 (f1-f7). you will come to a tty screen. there you can edit rc.conf. if that doesn't work, then you can always get a live cd and edit rc.conf as root.

Modified rc.multi for starting daemons

I'd like to share some of my modification about the daemon starting process here
What I've done is to add an option for DAEMONS in rc.conf, which allows starting a daemon after all the previous dependencies are actually done.
This is done by a creating a named pipe for a before it starts, and removing it after the daemon completes.
Daemons with dependencies are guaranteed to either be blocked by reading the named pipe or fail to find the named pipe (which means it already completed) by some tricks.
Here is the snippet from the rc.multi:
depsd="/var/lock/boot"
mkdir -p "$depsd"
rm -f "$depsd"/*
start_daemon_dep(){
local dep daemon="$1"
shift
for dep; do
cat "$depsd/$dep" 2>/dev/null
done
start_daemon "$daemon"
/etc/rc.d/daemon_complete "$depsd/$daemon"
make_dep(){
mkfifo "$depsd/$1"
(cat "$depsd/$1") 2>/dev/null &
stat_bkgd "Starting daemon $1"
# Start daemons
for daemon in "${DAEMONS[@]}"; do
d=(${daemon//:/ })
case ${d[0]:0:1} in
'!') continue;;
make_dep "${d[0]#@}"
(start_daemon_dep ${d[0]#@} ${d[1]//,/ }) 1>/dev/null &
make_dep "${d[0]}"
start_daemon_dep ${d[0]} ${d[1]//,/ } 1>/dev/null
esac
done
/etc/rc.d/daemon_complete is the programing doing the atomic guarantee.
daemon_complete.c:
#include <sys/types.h>
#include <sys/stat.h>
#include <stdio.h>
#include <fcntl.h>
int main(int argc, char **argv){
int fd;
if((fd = open(argv[1], O_WRONLY))< 0)
return 1;
if(unlink(argv[1]) < 0)
return 1;
if(close(fd) < 0)
return 1;
return 0;
Then we can write something like the following in rc.conf:
DAEMONS=(hwclock
rsyslogd
@network
@ntpdate:network
@dnsmasq:network
dbus
kdm:dbus,network
crond)
This means that ntpdate is running in background, but it won't start until its dependency, network, completes in background.
Multiple dependencies can be applied like the one kdm does: it relies on both dbus and network.
However, changing DAEMONS array syntax breaks some functionalities in /etc/rc.d/functions, so we have to accordingly change the file.
The file is here.
edit: I shouldn't put the executable in /etc/rc.d/functions.d/, so now it's in /etc/rc.d/
Last edited by realturner (2012-04-08 11:13:15)

I cannot contribute any specific thoughts yet,
but this is interesting.
I'll just post and follow this thread for the moment

Daemons in rc.conf: order ok?

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