[Grml] Trying to get modules to load & services to start at boot

[John Magolske]

Hi,

I have grml installed on my ThinkPad (grml2hd 05/16/2011), and am
having trouble getting modules to load & services to start at boot.
I did:

# echo tp_smapi >> /etc/modules

But after booting, tp_smapi is not present and I end up having to
manually load it. There's a post from 2005 [1] that says the solution
is to activate /etc/init.d/module-init-tools in /etc/runlevel.conf. Is
this still required? If so, as I don't see module-init-tools in that
file, I'm wondering where in the lineup should it should be and at
which runlevels it should start.

Also, I added these lines to /etc/sysfs.conf :

devices/platform/smapi/BAT0/start_charge_thresh=82
devices/platform/smapi/BAT0/stop_charge_thresh=92
vm.swappiness=5

But those values are not reflected after reboot:

# cat /sys/devices/platform/smapi/BAT0/*_charge_thresh
89
96
# cat /proc/sys/vm/swappiness
60

So they have to be set manually:

# echo 82 > /sys/devices/platform/smapi/BAT0/start_charge_thresh
# echo 92 > /sys/devices/platform/smapi/BAT0/stop_charge_thresh
# sysctl vm.swappiness=5

To start postfix I added this line to /etc/init.d/bootlocal.first :

/etc/init.d/postfix restart

But postfix doesn't start up at boot.

Thanks for any suggestions on how to set these things up properly.

[1] http://ml.grml.org/pipermail/grml/2005-November/008349.html

Regards,

John