Re: init.d

[Thomas Guettler <guettli@interface-business.de>]

I read in the debian-policy that you shouldn't 
change the links yourself. Try "man update-rc.d", too.

On Mon, Jul 24, 2000 at 12:03:17AM +0000, R K wrote:
> I've been having some problems getting startup scripts to work.  
> Particularly with MySQL (latest binary release).  From what I know, you're 
> supposed to put the script in /etc/init.d and make a sym-link to /etc/rcX.d 
> right?  In any case, I put the script in init.d and made a symlink 
> (S99mysql.server -> ../init.d/mysql.server) in rc3.d, but nothing happens at 
> startup.  I remeber having this problem before and fixing it, but now I 
> can't remember what I did.  Running potato (not like it makes a difference, 
> I was running slink the other time).  Anyway, if I've missed some critical 
> step, please let me know. =)
> 
> Oh yeah.. the script and the symlink DO work directly from the command line. 
> i.e. "/etc/init.d/mysql.server start" works.  I've even tried echo testing 
> the script, and have determined that it's not even being run at startup.
> 
> Thanks
> RK
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