On Sun, 03 Sep 2000, Bruce Richardson wrote: > All the user runlevel directories, /etc/rc1.d/ through to /etc/rc5.d/, > have exactly the same contents and they're all start scripts, no kill > scripts. If I telinit from (for example) runlevel 2 to 4, nothing > happens except for the "sending a term/kill signal to all processes" > message. The console I type it at stays the same but all the other ttys > freeze until I telinit back to the original runlevel.
This is ok, Debian doesn't use runlevels 3-5 for anything by default AFAIK, and they're mostly equal to runlevel 2 (I think /etc/inittab has some stuff which is different, simply to show it can do that). BTW, there's an utterly braindamaged behaviour in many (most?) daemon packages during upgrade: They will start their daemons regardless of the current runlevel, so keep this in mind during upgrades if you hand-trimmed your runlevels to actually mean something. Proposing a fix to this is in my TODO list. The code is rather easy, really, but requires a policy change as almost all packages who have something in /etc/init.d will have to be fixed. -- "One disk to rule them all, One disk to find them. One disk to bring them all and in the darkness grind them. In the Land of Redmond where the shadows lie." -- The Silicon Valley Tarot Henrique Holschuh
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