hello all, i am curious as to what the 'norm' is for *debian* regarding runlevels. that is, is it not a safe method of shutting down services to switch to runlevel 1, then back to a 'normal' runlevel (2-5)? basically, a coworker uses redhat, and he does this often to clean up his machine, and i have done it in the past with my debian system at home with no problems.
with the systems we have here at work, telinit'ing to 1 then 5 hangs the system at the nfs-kernel-server rc script (nfsd), presumably because the portmapper is stopped, and not restarted (it is one of the several real daemons started out of rcS, as different- iated from other 'services' that are *set up* out of rcS). thus stated, what is the recommended way to 'cleanse' the system, without restarting (although at runlevel 1, you might as well, but i am not considering that an option for various reasons). thanks everyone, -c [ Structural Informatics Group ] [ Dept. of Biological Structure ] [ University of Washington ] [ 206.616.7356:office ] [ 206.795.4998:cell ]
