On Sat, Jun 24, 2000 at 10:19:10AM -0700, Ian Zimmerman wrote: > level). Then the S scripts start everything that is needed, again > potentially restarting things that were already active on the old > level (although Debian avoids that as a matter of optimization).
See. > Why is it this way? Well, there's really no way to tell init to > execute programs upon _exiting_ a runlevel, or upon a transition from > one level to another; the /etc/inittab that defines runlevels is > one-dimensional. So the transition must be defined independently of > the old level. In their manual, SuSE document that upon changing from say runlevel 2 to 3, first all links matching /sbin/init.d/rc2.d/K* get executed and then the links matching /sbin/init.d/rc3.d/S*. (Funnily they have init.d under /sbin and not /etc) But which is the "proper" way of dealing with this? Is there no "specification" for this? Or does it simply not matter? :) Some ideas / thoughts anyone? Cheers -- S. Burgener Powered by Debian GNU/Linux 2.2
