Re: init/rc scripts

[Bill Crawford <redhat billemon org uk>]

On Tue, 30 Apr 2002, Vidiot wrote:

> I don't know where you were placing some test lines, but add these and
> report back.  I can't create a dummy init.d script and test it, since my
> Linux box is my very popular web/ftp server.  Bouncing it up and down
> will cause all kinds of grief with users.

 I've found a way around this.  If you make runlevel 4 the same as 3
except for the one service you'vre experimenting with, and then say

	# init 4
	[wait a few seconds to observe results]
	# init 3

then you should be able to see what's going on.