Re: init.d scripts boot order

[kaktus2 <kaktus2 wanadoo fr>]

Steven J. Yellin wrote:

> 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.
>
>  
thanks.

I fixed my problems using the graphical interface tksysv
It helps a lot. Reading docs about the boot helped also :)

k.