Re: /etc/rc?.d question

2000-09-12 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
According to Christian Pernegger: On Mon, Sep 11, 2000 at 11:19:23PM +, Miquel van Smoorenburg wrote: There is a README in /etc/init.d for a reason, you know .. I fully understand that you as the Grand Master of the Debian init system might be annoyed by such a question, but why

Re: /etc/rc?.d question

2000-09-12 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
exceeded. The summary of your previous message: From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: debian-user@lists.debian.org Sent Date:2000/9/12 PM 03:49:10 Subject: Re: /etc/rc?.d question Body: * According to Christian Pernegger: I

Re: /etc/rc?.d question

2000-09-12 Thread Christian Pernegger
Well, had you done the full RTFM routine (it means read ALL of them until you find what you want...) Point taken. see /usr/share/doc/sysvinit. Thanks very much, that's all I wanted to know. So don't get too surprised that someone was a bit harsh in his reply. Oh, I wasn't. I knew I was

Re: /etc/rc?.d question

2000-09-12 Thread Krzys Majewski
It looks to me like you didn't do anything wrong. Given an infinite amount of time, everyone on this list could solve all his Linux problems without any third-party help. All you have to do is read every single man page, every README, every info file, and the source code to all the programs on

/etc/rc?.d question

2000-09-11 Thread Christian Pernegger
Hi list, here's a quick one: I always thought that init, when changing runlevels, called first the K* scripts of the new runlevel with stop, then the S* ones with start. So I expected to find a K??networking in rc[06].d, but there's only a S??networking variant - in fact nowhere on the system

Re: /etc/rc?.d question

2000-09-11 Thread Bob McGowan
Check the directory /etc/rcS.d which is run when init goes to single user/halt, IIRC. Christian Pernegger wrote: Hi list, here's a quick one: I always thought that init, when changing runlevels, called first the K* scripts of the new runlevel with stop, then the S* ones with start. So

RE: /etc/rc?.d question

2000-09-11 Thread Christian Pernegger
:12 AM To: Christian Pernegger Cc: Debian user list Subject: Re: /etc/rc?.d question Check the directory /etc/rcS.d which is run when init goes to single user/halt, IIRC. Christian Pernegger wrote: Hi list, here's a quick one: I always thought that init, when changing runlevels

Re: /etc/rc?.d question

2000-09-11 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Christian Pernegger [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I uncommented the debug line in /etc/init.d/rc and noticed that all scrips in rc6.d / rc0.d were called with stop on shutdown _regardless of prefix_. Now I'm totally confused. Why don't you simply read the documentation?

Re: /etc/rc?.d question

2000-09-11 Thread Christian Pernegger
On Mon, Sep 11, 2000 at 11:19:23PM +, Miquel van Smoorenburg wrote: I uncommented the debug line in /etc/init.d/rc and noticed that all scrips in rc6.d / rc0.d were called with stop on shutdown _regardless of prefix_. Now I'm totally confused. Why don't you simply read the

Re: /etc/rc?.d question

2000-09-11 Thread Henrique M Holschuh
On Tue, 12 Sep 2000, Christian Pernegger wrote: On Mon, Sep 11, 2000 at 11:19:23PM +, Miquel van Smoorenburg wrote: There is a README in /etc/init.d for a reason, you know .. I fully understand that you as the Grand Master of the Debian init system might be annoyed by such a question,

Re: /etc/rc?.d question

2000-09-11 Thread Bob McGowan
Run states 0 and 6 are both characterized by complete shutdown of all services. And since the script name is just a way to find the file(s) of interest (and _all_ files are of interest for 0/6) and it is the argument that actually causes the action, it doesn't matter what name is used so long as