Yep, one of the tricks I learned many, many moons ago as a budding Unix sysadmin. That way, you keep the startup or kill files (usually, they're soft links to the real files in the /etc/init.d directory) in the same directory as they were originally intended to reside, if you ever decide you want to start using them again.
Mark At 08:22 AM 7/25/2008, Emory Smith wrote: >Cool! As long as I've been using Linux/UNIX, I didn't realize that >the capitalization (or lack of) in the run commands would do that. (Doh!) >It does make sense of course because ls != LS, etc, etc. >Ya learn something everyday! > >Thanks >Emory > >On Fri, Jul 25, 2008 at 7:09 AM, Mark Wendt (Contractor) ><[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Emory, > > > > In Unix based systems, init looks in the rc directories for > > startup and kill files. The startup files all start with a capital > > S, and the fill files all start with a capital K. To keep either of > > those files from being read and processes started or killed, all you > > need to do is to change the K or S to k or s in the file names. Init > > will not run the scripts if the beginning letter is not capitalized. > > > > Mark ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Moblin Your Move Developer's challenge Build the coolest Linux based applications with Moblin SDK & win great prizes Grand prize is a trip for two to an Open Source event anywhere in the world http://moblin-contest.org/redirect.php?banner_id=100&url=/ _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
