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Improving Slackware Boot Time

© Copyright Darrell Anderson.

(Spring – Summer 2008)

Boot times are longer than usual with Slackware 12.1. The delay occurs in the /etc/rc.d/rc.M script:

1. Update any existing icon cache files

2. Update mime database

3. SCIM and other GTK+ input methods like this file kept updated

Comment those items out of rc.M and copy the same text into a script called house-cleaning. Place the script in /etc/cron.daily.

Also comment out and copy to the same script the sections for running ldconfig and fc-cache.

Then add update-desktop-database (from /var/log/setup) to this script.

All of this helps reduce boot time yet keep the system updated and orderly.

Files:

/etc/cron.daily/house-cleaning

Finis.

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