[Chester LUG] The rc level question I asked.

[David Holden]

On Tuesday 13 May 2008, Stuart Burns wrote:
> People,
>
> I have the answer, yes indeedie!
>
> As to the question of does it run through all runlevels to get to its final
> runlevel the answer is yes.
>
> What happens is this.
>
> It enters the first run level and runs the S* scripts.
> As it enters run level 2 it compares what it should have running as opposed
> to what is running and issues a K* script if it a service is not required
> at that level or an S* script if an unstarted service is required at that
> item. Of course all the contents of the folders are links to the sbin
> folder but we know that anyhow ;)
>
> How do I know? Just covered it on my online training manual for SuSe. I
> really should learn to keep myself from "how does that work" questions.
>
> Stu

If you keep answering them the more the merrier.

Dave.




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