On Tue, Sep 18, 2001 at 11:22:30AM -0700, 'cduck' Chris Grierson wrote: > 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.
I'd expect that to be perfectly safe and correct. > 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). That sounds like a bug in nfs-kernel-server (perhaps in its ordering - I haven't investigated, but its maintainer should know). Could you report it, if it hasn't been already? The init script will be a conffile, so you can change it if you like and have your changes preserved by dpkg. This may help if the bug isn't fixed straight away. Cheers, -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED]
