Re: init.d scripts boot order

["Steven J. Yellin" <yellin SLAC Stanford EDU>]

On Sun, 4 May 2003, kaktus2 wrote:

> Hello
> 
> I'd like to change my init.d scripts boot order. So I changer manually a 
> link in /etc/rc3.d with
> another ID. But my changes seem to have been "undone" during the boot 
> sequence.
> So I heard about chkconfig ... I noticed a commented line containing 
> chkconfig instructions in
> quite every script.
> Do I need to manualy change the chkconfig lines in my init scripts ?
> Or only apply manual chkconfig 's on the scripts ?
>     chkconfig --level 2345 scriptname on (off)
> 
    Type "runlevel".  The second alphanumeric character it shows is the
current run level.  If it's "5", then you should have changed the symbolic
link in /etc/rc5.d to get the boot order changed, not just in /etc/rc3.d.  
I don't think anything happens during boot to change the order of startup
from the numerical order given by the numbers after the "S" in the
symbolically linked names in /etc/rc.d/rc*.d.  If you change the chkconfig
line in scriptname, then "chkconfig --level 2345 scriptname on" will setup
links with the new order in all of levels 2, 3, 4, and 5, instead of just
level 3 as you have done so far.  But so far as I know, that's just a
convenient way to do it; the results should be no better than if you setup
the symbolic links by hand.

-- 
Steven Yellin