Re: init.d

[Moritz Schulte <tux@gmx.li>]

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?  

correct.

> 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.

are you booting into runlevel 3? the X in rcX.d specifies the
runlevel..

btw: there's a very nice tool for managing these links: update-rc.d
see the manpage..

    moritz
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