* Tom Dillard <tom.dillard at tekelec.com> [2007-01-17 14:57]: > Thanks for the reply. I'm a little confused however. With run-levels, > if something was started in RL2 and then the system goes on up to 3, > if I drop back to 2 I would expect all the RL2 stuff to keep running, > and everything started in 3 or higher to be stopped. > > Are you saying that, since my service depends upon multi-user before > starting, that in reality it is "post" multi-user; into the > multi-user-server timeframe instead? > > boot---->single-----(Y)-->multi-user----(X)-->multi-user-server > > My service is really fitting in at point X, right? I guess what I > really want is for it to go in at point Y instead. So that would mean > either making multi-user dependent on my service, or my service > dependent on the single-user. Is that correct, and is one way perhaps > better than the other?
The restricted milestone startup starts only the strict subgraph needed to bring the milestone online. So only "making multi-user dependent on my service" will do what you want. - Stephen -- Stephen Hahn, PhD Solaris Kernel Development, Sun Microsystems stephen.hahn at sun.com http://blogs.sun.com/sch/
