RE: I'm confuzzed!

["Burke, Thomas G." <thomas_g_burke md northgrum com>]

> -----Original Message-----
> From:	Kevin Colby [SMTP:kevinc grainsystems com]
> Sent:	Wednesday, May 03, 2000 10:12 AM
> To:	redhat-install-list redhat com
> Subject:	Re: I'm confuzzed!
> 
> "Burke, Thomas G." wrote:
> > 
> > I'm really confuzzed (pronounce it the way it's spelled) about a couple
> > things, here...  Could somebody *please* explain to me what the _HECK_
> is
> > going on here?
> > 
> > 1)  Samba doesn't start on system boot up, I have to do it manually.
> Looked
> > into /etc/rc.d/rc?.d, and there are no SXXsmb files.  So, I went into
> rc3.d,
> > and created a link to /etc/rc.d/init.d/smb (ln -s /etc/rc.d/init.d/smb
> > S35smbTom)....  Reboot the machine, and it no workie...  I checked the
> > permissions, & as far as I can tell, they're identical to every other
> SXX???
> > file in the directory...  Whazzup with that?
> 
> We have smb starting at 82, but that may be because I wanted to
> make sure lpd and autofs were started first.  (I may be SMB sharing
> things that require those.)  I'm stopping it with "K35".  That may
> be the default, but I'm not sure.  Did you check the init.d/smb script's
> permissions or just the link?
> 
	[Burke, Thomas G.]  I have to be honest, it was just the link's...
However, I _can_ run the script manually (as root)...

> > 2)  Got a preliminary IPCHANS script put together.  Interestingly
> enough,
> > when I type "./rc.firewall", the machine comes back & tells me something
> > along the lines of "file not found"....  I do an ls, and sure enough,
> the
> > file is sitting right there!  Doesn't matter if I rename it to something
> > else, same crap happens...
> 
> Is it saying that "./rc.firewall" is not found or that some file
> refernced withing is not found?  Also, check your shell invocation
> at the top of the script.
> 
	[Burke, Thomas G.]  Shell invocation is there #! sh (or something
along those lines)...  It says that the file I'm trying to run is not
found...  The odd part is that I can run other things (gnorpm, for
instance).

> > 3) Just a question, maybe someone can answer....  is the rcX.d
> directories
> > the best place to ensure that daemons don't run (IE DNS, NFS, or
> whatever),
> > by erasing the SXX??? files, or maybe the actual files they point to in
> the
> > init.d directory, or is there some better (nicer) way of shutting this
> stuff
> > down these days?  Also, which ones should I be sure _NOT_ to turn off?
> 
> Well, the way I learned it was supposed to work doesn't seem to be
> the norm on Redhat.  The /etc/rc.d/rc script has two lines that read:
> 
>                 # Check if the script is there.
>                 [ ! -f $i ] && continue
> 
> These are in there twice, once for kill and once for start.  If this
> were "[ ! -x $i ] && continue", as I would prefer, you can simply
> chmod a script in init.d to activate/deactivate it.  Only scripts
> that were marked as executable would then be run as you change runlevels.
> 
> 	- Kevin Colby
> 	  kevinc grainsystems com
> 
> 
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