At 11:37 AM 7/25/2008, you wrote: >Mark Wendt (Contractor) wrote: > > >I should have mentioned that I always stop those services before I > >rename those files. Renaming without changing the S or K to lower > >case will still cause init to run those scripts when it enters that > >run level. S stands for start, and K stands for Kill to the init process. > > > > >Exactly my point :) > >If you simply rename the scripts to something that init ignores, then >the state of those ignored services won't be changed when you enter that >runlevel. That isn't robust against changes to services run at startup, >and it isn't robust against changing to another runlevel (like 3, where >you want those services on) and then changing back. > >That's why you'd want to rename from S##useless_service to >K##useless_service - that guarantees that whenever you enter that >runlevel, the unnecessary services will be stopped, even if they had >been started for some other reason. > >- Steve
I was assuming that he didn't want those services to run at all, especially at boot time. If they never start up, they never have to be killed. Mark ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Moblin Your Move Developer's challenge Build the coolest Linux based applications with Moblin SDK & win great prizes Grand prize is a trip for two to an Open Source event anywhere in the world http://moblin-contest.org/redirect.php?banner_id=100&url=/ _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
