On 24 Nov, Simon Bryan wrote: > OK, to follow up on this. Yes changing to run level 3 did stop the problems > at startup, (have had a few blackouts today, hence my interest in fixing > this!). However then I could not contact anything on the server, no DHCP > requests were being answered, although logging in on the terminal shows that > DHCP was running and that both eth0 and eth1 were up and running.
I'd guess that this means that DHCP and/or the rest of the networking stuff is only being started in run level 5. > Now I assume that this has something to do with the files in /etc/rc.d/rc5.d > and /etc/rc.d/rc3.d, I do not know what the various prefixes on the > filenames stand for. Is it 'safe' to simply copy all the files from the 5 > directory to the 3 directory. > > Or am I missing something else? Sounds okay to me - but I'm not sure what, at run level 5, starts X and the X login manager. Normally it's done via chkconfig or (a bit more graphically), ntsysv (both from /usr/sbin). BTW, the rc files are normally linked or symlinked from the files in init.d, (not copied), so that if you change the script in init.d, that script is changed in all run-levels at the same time. luke -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
