From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Arthur Othieno Subject: Re: More on Startup Scripts Date: Wed, 18 Sep 2002 20:55:57 +0100 Sender: linux-newbie-owner@vger.kernel.org Message-ID: <3D88DA4D.80502@gmx.net> References: <009101c25f3b$c47471b0$64fea8c0@pkrausxp> Reply-To: arthurothieno@gmx.net Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: List-Id: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format="flowed" To: Paul Kraus Cc: linux-newbie@vger.kernel.org Well, if for example your default runlevel is 5, then in the /etc/rc5.d directory (in Debian) (or /etc/rc.d/rc5/ in RedHat and RedHat-like systems), you may have a listing like this (this is just an example) K12anacron -> /etc/init.d/anacron S02portmap -> /etc/init.d/portmap S11sshd -> /etc/init.d/sshd S43sendmail -> /etc/init.d/sendmail ...note that these are actually _not_ scripts but symbolic links to the actual scripts that reside in /etc/init.d, thus, in the above example, anacron will be killed, the portmapper started, followed by sshd and so on. The numbers XX dictate the order in which services are started/stopped. Arthur Paul Kraus wrote: > I understand that in the runtime folders that the SXXscript stands for > startup and the KXXscript stands for kill. What do the XX stand for? > > Paul Kraus > Network Administrator > PEL Supply Company > 216.267.5775 Voice > 216-267-6176 Fax > www.pelsupply.com > - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-newbie" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.linux-learn.org/faqs