Re: Question about scripts in /etc/rc6.d

[Shyamal Prasad <shyamal.prasad@sbcglobal.net>]

    "Qian" == Qian Gong <q.gong@tue.nl> writes:

    Qian> In /etc/rc6.d there is a link S30urandom. But run level 6
    Qian> means reboot, which should stop (K) urandom, instead of
    Qian> start (S). More interesting is that "init 6" actually stops
    Qian> urandom. Another link is S35networking whose name means
    Qian> "start", but in fact "networking" is stopped. Any idea to
    Qian> explain? Thanks in advance.

>From the Debian Policy manual 

http://www.debian.org/doc/debian-policy/ch-opersys.html#s-sysvinit

"The two runlevels 0 (halt) and 6 (reboot) are slightly different. In
these runlevels, the links with an S prefix are still called after
those with a K prefix, but they too are called with the single
argument stop."

Cheers!
Shyamal