Re: Please remove rcconf
On Sun, 2004-03-07 at 21:09, Michael Stone wrote:
> On Sun, Mar 07, 2004 at 03:05:42PM -0500, Joe Nahmias wrote:
> >No, you're only supposed to delete the start links (S??service), not all
> >the links.
>
> Ah, yes. Deleting *all* the links would be a pretty severe bug.
Argh! You're not supposed to delete _any_ links -- just rename
them from Sn to K(100-n) and back.
If there is neither an S nor a K symlink for a service in a
runlevel it does not mean that the service should not run in
that runlevel.
Actually it doesn't mean _anything_. It is a misconfiguration.
If there is neither an S nor a K symlink for a service in a
runlevel then the init system does not know what it is supposed
to do to the service on entering that runlevel. On switching
runlevels, if the service is running then it will remain running;
if it is not running then it will remain not running. On the
other hand, if you ask invoke-rc.d to start a service on entering
such a runlevel then it will start it.
Each service needs exactly one symlink (either K or S) in each
of the runlevels to which the system can possibly be switched.
Pant, pant ... >foam< ...
--
Thomas Hood <jdthood@yahoo.co.uk>
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