Re: [cobalt-users] cleaning up /etc/rc.d/rc3.d

[flash22@xxxxxxx]

On Sun, 18 Mar 2001, SM wrote:

> At 21:18 17-03-2001 -0800, you wrote:
> >The initial "K" indicates not only that they won't start when your
> >system runs in system level 3, but also that if they're already running
> >when you switch to system level 3, they'll stop.
> >
> >That's a linux convention (is it a BSD convention as well, anyone?). 
> 
> BSD does not use that convention.

It's more properly a 'System V' convention, other non-linux machines that
are based on system V unix use them also...BSD as usual does it's own
thing ;)

Unfortunatly , while 'standard' , there are a lot of annoying variations,
for example run level 5 is a normal runlevel for linux (X), but tells
solaris to turn the machine off ;)

(The K=kill, S=start is pretty standard afaik tho)

Linux has a strange tendency to use start scripts to stop things tho,

eg S40umountfs 'Starts unmounting the disks ;)

Incidently, the K(ill) scripts go in all the runlevels that are *not*
running that service, removing them from rc.x direcorties leaves the
action of that service *undefined* if there is still a (S)tart script at
some other run level...

Eg: when changing from runlevel 2 to 3, init doesn't execute the K scripts
in 2, rather, it runs the ones in 3 to kill off services that aren't
supposed to be running at run level 3...(that might have been started at
2)

gsh