Craig McLean wrote: > > The man page states that whenever you transition between two run levels, it > sends all processes not in the new run level the SIGTERM and then SIGKILL > signals. Also in the debian case it runs the rc script which does all the K > entries and all the S entries, in the new runlevels rc[0-6sS].d > directory. When I transition from run level [2345] to run level [016sS] this > is exactly what happens. However when I try to transition from any of the > user defined run levels to any of the other user defined run levels (going > from [2345] to [2345]) it doesn't do what it is supposed to do.
check out the /etc/rc script. It's what actually runs all of the scripts in the rc[0-6sS].d directories. I think it's smart enough to only start services that are not in the previous run level instead of killing and restarting everything. So if you switch from level 2 to 3 only those S scripts is /etc/rc3.d that are not in /etc/rc2.d will be run. later, Andy
