Changing run levels -init.d

[Jurvis LaSalle]

On Mar 25, 2004, at 3:00 PM, Percent, Lonnie M. wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> RH AS 2.1
>
> I have two processes that I want to 1. start on going to init 3 or init
> 5
> And stop on going to init 0,6
>
> I have the start and stop script in init.d  and have symbolic link
> To the appropriate rc dirs.
>
> My question is :
> I have put in Start and Stop for my db and app server. I put start at
> S98 so
> It would be started after the system is up and stop at K16 so they 
> would
> be
> Stoped early before other process are stopped.
> For 0 and 6 I just put the stop (K's).
>
> But i notice that the start and stop links (S* & K*) are not the same 
> in
> each rc
> Dir for the same processes i.e. it stops httpd but never starts it.
> There may be
> Reasons for that. But I am questioning where I put my start and stop
> links.
>
> Any insight is appreciated
>
> Lonnie Percent
>

managing the rc scripts is a real pain.  so much so that some kind soul 
(Erik Troan) wrote chkconfig.  Read it's man page and revel in it's 
simplicity.

hth,
Jurvis LaSalle