On Sat, 19 Oct 2002, Tommy McNeely wrote: > > bootup or runlevel change. S means start it if entering the runlevel, > > K means stop (kill) it when leaving the runlevel. > > Actually the K scripts mean to KILL (stop) the service when entering the > RunLevel as well... most of the K scripts are in rc6.d and rc0.d (reboot > and shutdown respectively)
the K scripts are *only* for killing services that should not be running when entering a runlevel. they have nothing to do with what happens when leaving a runlevel. to convince yourself of this, see /etc/rc.d/rc, which is called from /etc/inittab (among other places). rday
