Have I gone Nuts?

Ben Duncan bns
Mon May 17 11:49:20 PDT 2004


<LOL>, I guess OF's like me was used to seeing JUST the runlevel specific scripts
in those directories they pretained to, and then the the "init" "walked" up (or 
down) the
runlevel (via inittab) to do what it needed ...

Net Llama! wrote:
> On 07/14/03 06:59, Ben Duncan wrote:
> 
>> err .. clarification on this.
>>
>> The /etc/init.d is a SYMLINK to /etc/rc.d/init.d.
>> Inside of /etc/rc.d ARE the directories of rc#.d, which
>> in turn is SYM linked to /etc/rc#.d,  respectively.
>>
>> Ok, in each of the rc#.d directories, are the SYMLINKS to
>> the /etc/rc.d/init.d stuff, in each of the rc#.d, is the S and the
>> K scripts, which are identical in runlevel 2 - 5 ..
> 
> 
> ok.  so other than the same exact init scripts getting run in all the 
> run levels, what is wrong?
> 
>>
>>
>> Net Llama! wrote:
>>
>>> On 07/14/03 05:21, Ben Duncan wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> So are you saying that there is no /etc/init.d/ with the init 
>>> scripts, and that in /etc/rc.d/rc3 the scripts just are sitting in 
>>> there, without symlinks?  If so, then yea, that is all messed up.
>>>
>> <SNIP>
>>
> 
> 


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